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 Prudhoe Castle from the Tyne Valley 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prudhoe Castle from the Tyne Valley’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Verso:
Prudhoe Castle from the Tyne Valley 1817
D12416
Turner Bequest CLVII 77a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘77a’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main focus of this two-page view, Prudhoe Castle itself, appears on folio 78 recto opposite (D12417). The present half shows the north bank of the Tyne near Howdene Bridge along the Wylam to Ovingham road (lightly indicated towards the right), looking south-west to the hills beyond Prudhoe on the left.

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Prudhoe Castle from the Tyne Valley 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-prudhoe-castle-from-the-tyne-valley-r1139417, accessed 23 April 2024.