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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > County Durham and Northumberland 1817 > Durham, North Shore, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland 1817
D12351
Turner Bequest CLVII 25
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Part watermark ‘atman | 14’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ bottom right (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLVII – 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The east end of Auckland Castle’s St Peter’s Chapel is seen from the north-north-east across the valley of the River Gaunless, now heavily wooded, towards Weardale on the right. This is one in a sequence of views between folios 21 verso and 27 recto (D12345–D12354), following the course of the Gaunless from south to north anti-clockwise around the castle towards the River Wear. For the history of the castle, see the entry for folio 22 recto (D12346).
Although Finberg numbers and brackets this drawing as a continuous composition with folio 24 verso opposite (D12350), that page is entirely blank.
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Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland 1817 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2010, 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-auckland-castle-bishop-auckland-r1139352, accessed 19 September 2024.