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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Windmill near East Cowes Castle; Clouds 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Windmill near East Cowes Castle; Clouds’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
?A Windmill near East Cowes Castle; Clouds 1827
D18033
Turner Bequest CCVII 23a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 100 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this slight profile of a skyline appears to show East Cowes Castle from the west, possibly with a windmill, indicated by what seems to be Turner’s customary ‘X’, nearby; there seems to be an inconsequential continuation on folio 24 recto opposite (D18034). Below, the other way up, is a study of clouds.
For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the sketchbook Introduction, and for other views of the castle, see under folio 22 recto (D18030).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?A Windmill near East Cowes Castle; Clouds 1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, 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-a-windmill-near-east-cowes-castle-clouds-r1183521, accessed 23 September 2024.