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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Lochmaben Castle, Near Lockerbie 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Lochmaben Castle, Near Lockerbie’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
Sketches of Lochmaben Castle, Near Lockerbie 1831
D25875
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 187 x 114 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘58’ top left running vertically and ‘342’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 58’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned to the left are four views of Lochmaben Castle. This is the second page of sketches of the castle, and it records Turner’s progress as he began to move from the south of Castle Loch around to the east. What looks like a mound ringed with trees in the top two sketches becomes more obviously a promontory in the third sketch down, where a bay of water can be seen in the foreground. In these sketches, especially in the fourth sketch, the castle is roughly outlined because it is only partially visible through the trees. There are more detailed close-up studies on folios 59 verso and 60 (D25878, D25879).
At the very bottom of the page a landscape view is just crammed into the available space. A towered structure at its centre may be Lochmaben Town Hall as seen on folio 57 verso (D25874).
See folio 57 verso for further information about Lochmaben.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Sketches of Lochmaben Castle, Near Lockerbie 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-sketches-of-lochmaben-castle-near-lockerbie-r1134242, accessed 26 April 2024.