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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dudley: A Quarry and Buildings, Probably on Wren's Nest Hill 1830

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
Dudley: A Quarry and Buildings, Probably on Wren’s Nest Hill 1830
D22419
Turner Bequest CCXL 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 68 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘51’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXL – 51’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned vertically, this sketch perhaps shows limestone workings on Wren’s Nest Hill, north of Dudley. The buildings are unidentified and probably lost; compare the sequence in the contemporary Kenilworth sketchbook (Tate D22085–D22090; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 57–59a). The sketches between folios 50 recto and 54 recto (D22417–D22425) all seem to be of or looking from Wren’s Nest Hill. For other views of Dudley, see under folio 39 recto (D22395).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dudley: A Quarry and Buildings, Probably on Wren’s Nest Hill 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-dudley-a-quarry-and-buildings-probably-on-wrens-nest-hill-r1148569, accessed 06 February 2025.