The Camden Town Group in Context

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kenilworth Castle from the South-East 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kenilworth Castle from the South-East’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Kenilworth Castle from the South-East 1830
D22034
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 32
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Partial watermark ‘nard | 20’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘32’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVIII – 32’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Kenilworth Castle is seen from the south-east, with Leicester’s Building on the left, the Great Tower on the far side of the inner court at the centre, and Leicester’s Gatehouse on the right above the Water Tower and Lunn’s Tower along the curtain wall.
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, which Eric Shanes has described as a ‘synthesis’ of sketches between folios 28 verso (D22027) and 37 verso,1 see under folio 29 recto (D22028).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
Shanes 1979, p.156

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Kenilworth Castle from the South-East 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in Helena Bonett, Ysanne Holt, Jennifer Mundy (eds.), The Camden Town Group in Context, Tate Research Publication, May 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research/content/1148675?project=2, accessed 02 September 2026.