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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ashby-de-la-Zouch: Studies of St Helen's Church and the Castle 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ashby-de-la-Zouch: Studies of St Helen's Church and the Castle’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Ashby-de-la-Zouch: Studies of St Helen’s Church and the Castle 1830
D22059
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Partial watermark ‘R Bar | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘45’ bottom left, upside down
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘1420’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVIII – 45’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, at the top left is a view of the west end and tower of Ashby-de-la-Zouch’s St Helen’s Church, now obscured by trees. At the centre right, seen from nearby, is the castle’s ruined kitchen block seen from the north-west; there is a continuation of this view at the bottom left, beyond a jagged structure which does not survive, towards a windmill on the skyline. There are other details to the left of centre; the turret shown there does not survive.
For other views of Ashby, see under folio 21 verso (D22012; CCXXXVIII 21).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ashby-de-la-Zouch: Studies of St Helen’s Church and the Castle 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-ashby-de-la-zouch-studies-of-st-helens-church-and-the-castle-r1148700, accessed 23 April 2024.