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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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 across the River Tyne at Ovingham 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prudhoe Castle from across the River Tyne at Ovingham’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Recto:
Prudhoe Castle from across the River Tyne at Ovingham 1817
D12423
Turner Bequest CLVII 81
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘81’ top left, upside down (very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLVII – 81’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a slight continuation, showing a house at Ovingham, of the main view of Prudhoe Castle across the Tyne on folio 80 verso opposite (D12422).

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Prudhoe Castle from across the River Tyne at Ovingham 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-across-the-river-tyne-at-ovingham-r1139424, accessed 16 April 2024.