J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Cheshire, Derbyshire, North Wales ... > Derbyshire Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Castle or Mansion on a Ridge 1808

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Castle or Mansion on a Ridge’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Verso:
A Castle or Mansion on a Ridge 1808
D07239
Turner Bequest CVI 81a
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. As a hasty outline, this sketch is similar to that on folio 83 verso (D07237: Turner Bequest CVI 80a), perhaps representing the same building. A more finished version of the present sketch, worked with pen over pencil, is on folio 85 verso (D07241; Turner Bequest CVI 81). For this, Eric Shanes1 suggests Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, which Turner could have passed earlier on his tour in 1808. A further possibility, closer to the territory covered in this sketchbook, might be Haddon Hall.

David Blayney Brown
July 2010

1
In conversation with the author.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Castle or Mansion on a Ridge 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-castle-or-mansion-on-a-ridge-r1129663, accessed 24 April 2024.