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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Windsor Castle from the River Thames c.1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Windsor Castle from the River Thames’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Windsor Castle from the River Thames c.1827
D20600
Turner Bequest CCXXVI 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 192 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXXVI – 3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s viewpoint here is the Brocas meadows on the north side of the River Thames, looking south-east. Eric Shanes has mentioned this drawing1 in relation to the watercolour Windsor Castle of about 1828–9 (British Museum, London),2 engraved in 1831 for Turner’s Picturesque Views in England and Wales (Tate impressions: T05086, T06093), as discussed under the similar view on folio 2 recto (D20598); as in the present drawing, the low morning sun is seen above the castle in the completed design. See also folio 2 verso opposite (D20599).
1
See Shanes 1979, p.156.
2
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.397 no.829, reproduced, as c.1829; Kim Sloan, J.M.W. Turner: Watercolours from the R.W. Lloyd Bequest in the British Museum, London 1998, p.98 no.30, reproduced in colour p.[99], as c.1828–9.
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Matthew Imms
November 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Windsor Castle from the River Thames c.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-windsor-castle-from-the-river-thames-r1183240, accessed 21 November 2024.