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 > Richmond Hill; Hastings to Margate ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings at Winchelsea c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings at Winchelsea’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
Buildings at Winchelsea circa 1816–19
D10524
Turner Bequest CXL 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As well as a group of houses among trees, Turner shows a tower, evidently the same as appears to the right of the Pipewell Gate on the north-east edge of the town in sketches on folios 64 verso and 65 verso of the sketchbook (D10521, D10523; Turner Bequest CXL 57a, 58a). This is no longer standing. For its possible identity as a former castle or church see notes to the earlier Sussex sketchbook (Tate D05763; Turner Bequest XCII 44).

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Buildings at Winchelsea c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-buildings-at-winchelsea-r1131518, accessed 19 April 2024.