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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Arundel Castle c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Recto:
Arundel Castle c.1824
D18436
Turner Bequest CCX 72
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘72’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 72’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With summary handling, here Turner has rendered a series of sketches of Arundel Castle, the ancient seat of the Dukes of Norfolk. At centre right is the Castle’s Banqueting Room, with its the twenty-foot stained glass window suggested in cursory detail. The window depicts the meeting of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, and was designed by William Hamilton R.A. and produced by the artisan glass-painter Francis Eginton.1
These sketches are associated with Turner’s watercolour designs for W.B. Cooke’s Rivers of England print series: Arundel Castle on the River Arun, with a Rainbow (Tate D18139; Turner Bequest CCVIII F) and Arundel Castle on the River Arun (Tate D18140; Turner Bequest CCVIII G). 2
For other sketches of Arundel Castle in this book see Tate D18419–D18461; Turner Bequest CCX 63–84a. See also Tate D22819–D22820, D22847–D22848, D22881–D22884, D22887, D22900–D22901, D22936, D23002–D23010; Turner Bequest CCXLV 21a–22, 38a–39, 60a–62, 63a, 70a–71, CCXLVI 22, 86a–91.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

1
Charles Wright, The History and Description of Arundel Castle, Sussex, 2nd ed., London 1818, pp.54–55.
2
See Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Arundel Castle on the River Arun, with a Rainbow c.1824–5 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-arundel-castle-on-the-river-arun-with-a-rainbow-r1146205 and Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Arundel Castle, on the River Arun c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-arundel-castle-on-the-river-arun-r1146206

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Arundel Castle c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-arundel-castle-r1181321, accessed 18 September 2024.