'Barnard Castle', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Barnard Castle

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CCLXVI

Date 1831

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 114 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D25825

Turner Bequest CCLXVI 33

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 33 Recto:

Barnard Castle 1831

D25825
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 33

Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘33’ top right, and ‘342’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 33’ top left inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This view of Barnard Castle, made from a bridge across the River Tees to the north of the castle, is similar to a sketch that Turner made on the same occasion in the Rokeby and Appleby sketchbook (Tate D25628; Turner Bequest CCLXIV 55a), and recalls an earlier sketch of the castle which he made on his visit over thirty years before in 1797 (Tate D00935; Tate Britain XXXIV 29).

For more information and references to further views of the castle see folio 32 (D25823) in the present sketch book.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.