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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bodiam Castle, the Postern Tower in the South Wall to the Left ?1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bodiam Castle, the Postern Tower in the South Wall to the Left’ ?1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
Bodiam Castle, the Postern Tower in the South Wall to the Left ?1810
D10224
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 11a
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wall’ within image centre left
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted.
For Bodiam Castle in this sketchbook, see notes to folio 7 verso (D10214; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 6a). As Finberg observed, this view is continued to the right on folio 11 verso (D10222; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 10a).

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Bodiam Castle, the Postern Tower in the South Wall to the Left ?1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, 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-bodiam-castle-the-postern-tower-in-the-south-wall-to-the-r1131265, accessed 25 April 2024.