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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dudley: The Castle and St Edmund's Church from the South-East 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dudley: The Castle and St Edmund's Church from the South-East’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
Dudley: The Castle and St Edmund’s Church from the South-East 1830
D22437
Turner Bequest CCXL 60
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 68 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘60’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXL – 60’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, continues across folio 59 verso opposite (D22436). As part of unpublished Turner research informed by local knowledge, Dr Bernard Richards confirmed the subject as Dudley Castle (mostly on the other page) and St Edmund’s Church,1 drawn to from the valley south-east of the town. The juxtaposition can now be glimpsed among much later development from the town’s Southern By-Pass, although the castle is largely screened by trees.
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 St Edmund’s Church from the South-East 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-st-edmunds-church-from-the-south-east-r1148587, accessed 26 April 2024.