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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Goldielands Tower 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Goldielands Tower’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Goldielands Tower 1831
D25545
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 11a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Road Goldielands’ bottom
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From just beyond Branxholm Tower this sketch, continued on folio 12 (D25546), depicts a view north along the River Teviot towards Goldielands Tower. The tower is sketched again at the bottom of the page where Turner has inscribed the words ‘Road’ (or perhaps ‘red’) and ‘Goldielands’.
Branxholm and Goldielands Towers are situated along the River Teviot about three miles from Hawick. Turner made several sketches of them in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border sketchbook as he passed by on his way from Langholm to Hawick on 3 August 1831 (Tate D25914; Turner Bequest CCLXVI 85a). There are also further sketches in the present sketchbook on folios 18 and 21 (D25557, D25563).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Goldielands Tower 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, 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-goldielands-tower-r1133904, accessed 24 April 2024.