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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Large Ruined Castle, with a Church Tower to the Right 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Large Ruined Castle, with a Church Tower to the Right’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
A Large Ruined Castle, with a Church Tower to the Right 1798
D01580
Turner Bequest XL 69a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘24’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 69 a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this castle has not yet been identified; it may be Ludlow. Finberg suggested Chepstow,1 but this does not seem likely. The subject is continued on folio 72 recto opposite (D01581; Turner Bequest XL 70).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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A.J. Finberg, undated MS note in interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.96.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Large Ruined Castle, with a Church Tower to the Right 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-large-ruined-castle-with-a-church-tower-to-the-right-r1173819, accessed 18 April 2024.