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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Colchester Castle c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Colchester Castle’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Verso:
Colchester Castle c.1824
D18296
Turner Bequest CCIX 80 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with the sketchbook turner upside town, here Turner has drawn a study of Colchester Castle in Essex. The stronghold was designed by Gundulf, the Bishop of Rochester, for William the Conqueror.1 Built between 1069 and 1076, it is constructed on the foundations of a Roman temple dedicated to Claudius.2 Turner has produced a further study of the castle on the folio opposite (Tate D18297; Turner Bequest CCIX 81).
Other sketches of Colchester are found on Tate D18164–D18166, D18169, D18171, D18186, D18275–D18276; Turner Bequest CCIX 3a–4a, 6a, 7a, 16, 61–62.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
‘History’, Colchester and Ipswich Museums, accessed 29 January 2015, http://www.cimuseums.org.uk/article/10838/History
2
Ibid.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Colchester Castle c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-colchester-castle-r1181178, accessed 23 September 2024.