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 South Bank of the Yarrow Water near Newark Castle, Selkirkshire 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘South Bank of the Yarrow Water near Newark Castle, Selkirkshire’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
South Bank of the Yarrow Water near Newark Castle, Selkirkshire 1834
D26170
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 39
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Bowhill Rd’ top right
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘39’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 39’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch follows views of Newark Castle (folios 36–38 verso; D26164–D26169) and precedes a sketch of Bowhill House (folio 39 verso; D26171) in the sketchbook, suggesting that it depicts the Yarrow Water between the castle and the mansion to the south. The inscription at the top right of the page is therefore likely to read ‘Bowhill Rd’, rather than ‘Barred Gt’, as Wallace-Hadrill has suggested.1

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

1
David Wallace-Hadrill, ‘1831/1834’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘South Bank of the Yarrow Water near 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-south-bank-of-the-yarrow-water-near-newark-castle-r1136098, accessed 25 April 2024.