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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berwick-on-Tweed, Bell Tower 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berwick-on-Tweed, Bell Tower’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Berwick-on-Tweed, Bell Tower 1831
D25666
Turner Bequest CCLXV 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘14’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXV 14’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook inverted is a view of Berwick-upon-Tweed with the Bell Tower (see folio 29; D25693) and the spire of the Town Hall (see folio 9 verso; D25658) as in the sketch in the Abbotsford sketchbook (Tate D26009–D26010; CCLXVII 48a – 49) that formed the basis of Turner’s watercolour, Berwick-upon-Tweed circa 1832 (whereabouts unknown),1 prepared for volume 12 of Sir Walter Scott’s Poetic Works. The sketch was probably taken from the same place that Turner stood to make the view of Berwick Castle on folio 13 verso (D25665).
See folio 13 verso for references to further views of Berwick in this sketchbook.
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.439 no.1092.
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Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Berwick-on-Tweed, Bell 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-berwick-on-tweed-bell-tower-r1134030, accessed 26 April 2024.