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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Caerlaverock Castle 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Caerlaverock Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
Caerlaverock Castle 1831
D25861
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘51’ top right and ‘342’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 51’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Caerlaverock is from the south-east and shows the most ruinous part of the castle, where the south-east tower and south curtain wall were destroyed in 1640.1 To the left of the centre is the outline of Criffell, a hill about four miles to the south-west of the castle across the mouth of the River Nith.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
‘Caerlaverock Castle’, Undiscovered Scotland, accessed 23 April 2009, http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dumfries/caerlaverock/index.html.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Caerlaverock Castle 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-caerlaverock-castle-r1134228, accessed 25 April 2024.