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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Wey, Guildford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Windsor Castle from the North, near Romney Lock: Curfew Tower to the Right 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Windsor Castle from the North, near Romney Lock: Curfew Tower to the Right’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 131 Verso:
Windsor Castle from the North, near Romney Lock: Curfew Tower to the Right 1805
D06348
Turner Bequest XCVIII 131a
Pencil on white laid paper, 182 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, and continued by a few slight marks on folio 132 (D06349). However more significantly, as Hill shows by reproducing them alongside, this sketch primarily of a rustic bridge and trees with the castle glimpsed behind continues the double-spread of the castle from the north, below Romney Lock, on folios 132 verso–133 (D06350–D06351). A more distant version of the same view, but cut off more sharply at the bridge and trees, is on folios 130 verso–131 (D06346–D06347).

David Blayney Brown
July 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Windsor Castle from the North, near Romney Lock: Curfew Tower to the Right 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, 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-windsor-castle-from-the-north-near-romney-lock-curfew-tower-r1130532, accessed 26 April 2024.