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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner East Cowes Castle from the West, beyond Trees 1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
East Cowes Castle from the West, beyond Trees 1827
D40306
Ink on blue wove paper, 142 x 193 mm
This slight drawing is not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory;1 it is a variation of the more developed subject on the recto (D20809; Turner Bequest CCXXVII a 6). These are among dozens of blue paper studies made in and around East Cowes Castle, presumably in the course of a single visit. For more on the various aspects of the house (demolished in about 1950), and its lost grounds as depicted by Turner, see the Introduction to this subsection.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.700.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘East Cowes Castle from the West, beyond Trees 1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-east-cowes-castle-from-the-west-beyond-trees-r1182672, accessed 29 March 2024.