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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Haddon Hall: The Lower Courtyard ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Haddon Hall: The Lower Courtyard’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Haddon Hall: The Lower Courtyard ?1831
D22203
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 29a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 191 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main view, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, shows the lower Courtyard of Haddon Hall, looking west to the North-West Tower, as Ian Warrell has noted,1 to the right of centre. The stone staircase near the south-east corner of the courtyard is on the left. The main entrance arch to the hall is at the foot of the tower, appearing shallow from this angle owing to the flight of steps down to it at the corner of the courtyard, not visible from Turner’s viewpoint.
As Warrell has observed, the separate detail at the lower right, upside down in relation to the main view, appears to have been made looking from the south side of the staircase, which is indicated by parallel diagonal strokes.2 For other views see under folio 24 recto (D22192).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
Ian Warrell, notes from 1993 and later in Tate catalogue files.
2
Ibid.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Haddon Hall: The Lower Courtyard ?1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-haddon-hall-the-lower-courtyard-r1148849, accessed 19 September 2024.