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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Goodrich Castle: Two Arches in the Solar, with the Valley of the Wye Beyond 1795

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Goodrich Castle: Two Arches in the Solar, with the Valley of the Wye Beyond 1795
D00581
Turner Bequest XXVI 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 264 x 203 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘BP’ within the drawing on far wall, left of centre
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 28’ bottom right
This sheet has been misbound. It should be placed between the present folios 55 recto and 56 recto (D00610, D00612; Turner Bequest XXVI 56, 58), where Finberg recorded XXVI 57 as ‘Missing’1 (see the concordance in the introduction to the sketchbook), D00610 being another drawing of Goodrich Castle. The grand thirteenth-century arches of the Solar are recorded by Turner as in a much better state of preservation than they are today.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.52.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by ?John Ruskin in pencil ‘19’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Goodrich Castle: Two Arches in the Solar, with the Valley of the Wye Beyond 1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-goodrich-castle-two-arches-in-the-solar-with-the-valley-of-r1140908, accessed 29 March 2024.