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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner One of the Towers of Chirk Castle 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘One of the Towers of Chirk Castle’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
One of the Towers of Chirk Castle 1794
D40235
Pencil on white wove paper, 140 x 214 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram towards top left
Inscribed in pencil ‘D00332 D40235’ top left, upside down
This slight sketch is not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue.1 Turner made a general view of Chirk Castle from a distance on the recto of this sheet (D00332; Turner Bequest XXI F).
The other half of the sheet, torn off, apparently along a ruler or knife, and now unidentified, was also drawn on; fragments of pencil-work are visible along the bottom edge.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.33.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘One of the Towers of Chirk Castle 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-one-of-the-towers-of-chirk-castle-r1141057, accessed 27 September 2024.