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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hermitage Castle 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hermitage Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Hermitage Castle 1831
D25896
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 68a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Hermitage Castle from the west is close to the view on folio 67 that formed the basis of Turner’s vignette illustration of Hermitage Castle circa 1832 (watercolour, private collection),1 engraved for the fourth volume of Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works. It shows the castle on a slight rise in the middle distance with Hermitage Water in the foreground.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.428 no.1077.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Hermitage 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-hermitage-castle-r1134263, accessed 26 April 2024.