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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Kenilworth Castle from Castle Hill 1830

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Kenilworth Castle from Castle Hill 1830
D22026
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘28’ bottom left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVIII – 28’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, Kenilworth Castle is shown looking west from Castle Hill, with Leicester’s Building and the Great Tower to the left and right on the skyline above Lunn’s Tower at the centre. The prospect is now screened by trees.
Most of the sketches between folios 27 recto (D22024) and 37 verso (D22045) show Kenilworth. For the history of the castle and Turner’s subsequent watercolour, see under folio 29 recto (D22028).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Kenilworth Castle from Castle 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-kenilworth-castle-from-castle-hill-r1148667, accessed 28 March 2024.