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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dudley: Limestone Workings and Buildings, Probably on Wren's Nest Hill 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dudley: Limestone Workings and Buildings, Probably on Wren's Nest Hill’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
Dudley: Limestone Workings and Buildings, Probably on Wren’s Nest Hill 1830
D22417
Turner Bequest CCXL 50
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘50’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXL – 50’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this sketch perhaps shows limestone workings on Wren’s Nest Hill, north of Dudley. The buildings are unidentified and probably lost; compare the sequence in the contemporary Kenilworth sketchbook (Tate D22085–D22090; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 57–59a). The sketches between here and folio 54 recto (D22417–D22425) all seem to be of or looking from Wren’s Nest Hill. For other views of Dudley, see under folio 39 recto (D22395).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dudley: Limestone Workings and Buildings, Probably on Wren’s Nest Hill 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-dudley-limestone-workings-and-buildings-probably-on-wrens-r1148567, accessed 25 April 2024.