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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bodiam Castle; the South Wall and Postern Tower ?1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bodiam Castle; the South Wall and Postern Tower’ ?1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
Bodiam Castle; the South Wall and Postern Tower ?1810
D10216
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 7a
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. For Bodiam Castle in this sketchbook, see notes to folio 7 verso (D10214; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 6a). As Finberg observed, this view is continued on folio 9 verso (D10218; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 8a). Turner’s patron John Fuller restored the Postern Tower after he bought the castle in 1829.

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Bodiam Castle; the South Wall and Postern Tower ?1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-bodiam-castle-the-south-wall-and-postern-tower-r1131257, accessed 17 July 2024.