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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Scotch Antiquities Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Crichton Castle 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Crichton Castle’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
Crichton Castle 1818
D13730
Turner Bequest CLXVII 79
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed in blue ink ‘79’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXVII 79’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
One of a series of views of Crichton Castle from the north (see folio 86; D13728; CLXVII 78), this rather rapid sketch looks south along the Tyne valley with the castle on the eastern bank to the left of the drawing, and what may be several ruins on the hillside in the foreground. With the plunging rugged hillsides (rather exaggerated) and the castle rising above, this is a Romantic vision of Crichton Castle that is born out in the final design, Crichton Castle, circa 1818 (The Morgan Library and Museum, New York).1

Thomas Ardill
April 2008

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.425 no.1059.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Crichton Castle 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2008, 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-crichton-castle-r1132287, accessed 20 September 2024.