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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Newark Castle, Selkirkshire 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Newark Castle, Selkirkshire’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
Newark Castle, Selkirkshire 1834
D26169
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 38a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Road’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is the last that Turner made of Newark Castle as he coached away from it towards Philiphaugh and Selkirk; folios 36–38 verso (D26164–D26169). From the road to the east, we look north-east across the Yarrow Water, towards the ruin which is shown as a faint outline in the middle distance near the centre of the picture. The road that Turner was travelling on is labelled at the bottom right of the page (‘Road’).

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Newark Castle, Selkirkshire 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2011, 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-selkirkshire-r1136097, accessed 26 April 2024.