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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cowdray Castle from the Park, with Tinkers 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cowdray Castle from the Park, with Tinkers’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Cowdray Castle from the Park, with Tinkers 1809
D07519
Turner Bequest CIX 8
Pencil on white wove paper, 225 x 372 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cowdrey’ bottom right and ‘tinkers’ by figures centre left
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘282’ bottom left and ‘8’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CIX 8’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For views of the ruins of Cowdray Castle from this sketchbook see especially D07517; Turner Bequest CIX 6. Here, the castle is seen through trees. Henry Edward Fox, having ridden over from Petworth in 1823, observed that ‘The park at Cowdray is full of splendid trees, especially Spanish chestnuts’.1 The tinkers noted in Turner’s inscription are at extreme left, beside a hut or tent among the trees.
For the verso see D07520; Turner Bequest CIX 8a.

David Blayney Brown
June 2009

1
The Earl of Ilchester ed., The Journal of Henry Edward Fox, London 1923.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Cowdray Castle from the Park, with Tinkers 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, 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-cowdray-castle-from-the-park-with-tinkers-r1135634, accessed 20 April 2024.