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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dudley: The Castle and Priory with St Thomas's Church Beyond 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dudley: The Castle and Priory with St Thomas's Church Beyond’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Verso:
Dudley: The Castle and Priory with St Thomas’s Church Beyond 1830
D22426
Turner Bequest CCXL 54a
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As part of unpublished Turner research informed by local knowledge, Dr Bernard Richards1 confirmed this as a view, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, of the ruined keep Dudley Castle from the wooded slopes below (now occupied by Dudley Zoo), looking south-west to the spire of St Thomas’s Church. The view continues a little way on folio 55 recto opposite (D22427), with the ruins of Dudley Priory at the foot of the hill; the main view on that page shows a similar prospect.
There are variations on this view on folios 55 verso–56 recto and 56 verso (D22428–D22430). For other views of Dudley, see under folio 39 recto (D22395).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

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Conversation with the author, 14 May 2013.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dudley: The Castle and Priory with St Thomas’s Church Beyond 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-the-castle-and-priory-with-st-thomass-church-beyond-r1148576, accessed 22 September 2024.