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

With summary handling, here Turner has rendered a series of sketches of Arundel Castle, the ancient seat of the Dukes of Norfolk. At centre right is the Castle’s Banqueting Room, with its the twenty-foot stained glass window suggested in cursory detail. The window depicts the meeting of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, and was designed by William Hamilton R.A. and produced by the artisan glass-painter Francis Eginton.1

These sketches are associated with Turner’s watercolour designs for W.B. Cooke’s Rivers of England print series: Arundel Castle on the River Arun, with a Rainbow (Tate D18139; Turner Bequest CCVIII F) and Arundel Castle on the River Arun (Tate D18140; Turner Bequest CCVIII G). 2

For other sketches of Arundel Castle in this book see Tate D18419–D18461; Turner Bequest CCX 63–84a. See also Tate D22819–D22820, D22847–D22848, D22881–D22884, D22887, D22900–D22901, D22936, D23002–D23010; Turner Bequest CCXLV 21a–22, 38a–39, 60a–62, 63a, 70a–71, CCXLVI 22, 86a–91.