'Berwick', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Berwick

From Abbotsford Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CCLXVII

Date 1831

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 113 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D26031

Turner Bequest CCLXVII 61 a

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 59 Verso:

Berwick 1831

D26031
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 61a

Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

There are three studies of Berwick-upon-Tweed on this page, all made with the sketchbook in different orientations. At the centre of the page, with the sketchbook inverted, is a view east along the River Tweed from the west of the castle with Berwick Bridge, connecting Tweedmouth to the south with Berwick (continued on folio 60; D26032; CCLXVII 62) to the north. The other two sketches, at the top of the page with the sketchbook in its usual orientation, and at the outer edge with the book turned to the right, are studies of the ruins of Berwick Castle, taken from the same position. These studies were all made in connection to Turner’s watercolour Berwick-upon-Tweed circa 1832 (whereabouts unknown),1 which was based on a sketch on folios 48 verso–49 of this sketchbook (D26009–D26010; CCLXVII 48a–49).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.430 no.1092.

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