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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner East Cowes Castle from the South, with Figures in the Foreground 1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘East Cowes Castle from the South, with Figures in the Foreground’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
East Cowes Castle from the South, with Figures in the Foreground 1827
D20828
Turner Bequest CCXXVII a 25
Chalk and ink on blue wove paper, 195 x 140 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘25’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXXVII(a) 25’ bottom left, descending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of East Cowes Castle is from the south, with the towers of the main house above the arcaded conservatories to the left, and what appears to be the tower of the ‘garden room’ on the near side of the formal lawn given exaggerated prominence on the right. Compare Tate D20812 (Turner Bequest CCXXVII a 9).
This is 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. As in many instances, there are figures here among the foliage in the foreground.
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Matthew Imms
November 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘East Cowes Castle from the South, with Figures in the Foreground 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-south-with-figures-in-the-r1182691, accessed 20 April 2024.