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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Castle on a Wooded Hillside above a Wide Valley c.1809-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Castle on a Wooded Hillside above a Wide Valley’ c.1809-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?A Castle on a Wooded Hillside above a Wide Valley circa 1809–10
D09012
Turner Bequest CXXVII 33v
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 202 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in ink ‘179’ top right, upside down
This sketch is not mentioned in Finberg’s Turner Bequest Inventory.1 As set out in the Introduction, this sketchbook contains identified views of Cumbria and Sussex, although the present view, with what appears to be a castle on the wooded hillside on the right, has not as yet been associated with certainty with either. The ink drawing on the recto (D09011; CXXVII 33) may show Hastings, in the latter county.
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Technical notes:
There is some ink spotting or offsetting at the bottom left and centre. The leaf has darkened owing to the prolonged display of the recto. This is a face of one of a few single leaves which, with a greater number of loose bifolio sheets, constitute the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook. The folded sheets were not bound, but placed inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order).

Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?A Castle on a Wooded Hillside above a Wide Valley c.1809–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-on-a-wooded-hillside-above-a-wide-valley-r1134723, accessed 25 April 2024.