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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle from the South-West, with St Helen's Church Beyond 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle from the South-West, with St Helen's Church Beyond’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle from the South-West, with St Helen’s Church Beyond 1830
D22063
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 47
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘47’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVIII – 47’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The ruins of Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle and the square tower of St Helen’s Church are seen from the south-west, with the brick-built tower at the south-west corner of the gardens on the right. The view is now largely obscured by trees.
For other views of Ashby, see under folio 21 verso (D22012; CCXXXVIII 21). As Eric Shanes has noted, ‘the large number of those studies suggests that the painter went to great lengths to find a view of the scene that sparked his imagination’.1

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
Shanes 1990, p.276; see also p.286 note 232, and Shanes 1979, p.156.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle from the South-West, with St Helen’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-ashby-de-la-zouch-castle-from-the-south-west-with-st-helens-r1148704, accessed 25 April 2024.