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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Newark Castle 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Newark Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
Newark Castle 1831
D26069
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 80a
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Gerald Finley has pointed out, this sketch (made with the book inverted) shows Robert Cadell sitting on a tree trunk in front of Newark Castle, waiting for the artist to finish making sketches.1 The view is from the Yarrow Water’s edge just to the north-east of the castle near Newark Mill, which is shown behind Cadell to the left.
For more information on Turner’s visit to Newark, see folio 77 (D26066; CCLXVII 79).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
Finley 1972, p.368; and Finley 1980, p.161.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Newark 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-newark-castle-r1134437, accessed 25 April 2024.