Corfe Castle
Corfe Castle is an imposing hill-top fortification that dominates a gap in the Purbeck ridges on the route between Wareham and Swanage. Now little more than a monumental stone ruin, it dates to the 11th century and played a significant strategic role in the English Civil War.
Nash made two chalk and watercolour paintings of the castle seen at some distance from the heath. These were part of a large portfolio of work made during 1935, his most industrious and productive year in Dorset.
Paul Nash
Corfe Castle from the Heath
1935
Chalk and watercolour
31.8 x 42.5 cm
References:
Andrew Causey, Paul Nash Catalogue Raisonné (Oxford, 1980) cat. no.831
Penny Denton, ‘Seaside Surrealism’ Paul Nash in Swanage (Durlstone, 2002) cat.no.18
Paul Nash
Corfe Castle from the Heath
1935
Chalk and watercolour
27.3 x 37.5 cm
References:
Andrew Causey, Paul Nash Catalogue Raisonné (Oxford, 1980) cat. no.832
Penny Denton, ‘Seaside Surrealism’ Paul Nash in Swanage (Durlstone, 2002) cat.no.19
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