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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Raby Castle from the North-East 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Raby Castle from the North-East’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Raby Castle from the North-East 1817
D12289
Turner Bequest CLVI 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 232 x 328 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLVI 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The castle is seen here from the north-east; since the main axes of the building run north-south and east-west, most of the towers (including Bulmer’s Tower at the left and the Kitchen Tower at the centre) are seen on the diagonal, but Clifford’s Tower, the large block on the right, is set on a south-east to north-west diagonal and appears face-on. The view continues a little to the left with another clump of trees on folio 22 verso opposite (D12288; CLVI 16a).
As now bound and foliated, sketches of the castle and its surroundings fill most of the second half of the sketchbook, from folio 17 recto (D12298; CLVI 22a) to folio 32 recto (D12309; CLVI 28).

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Raby Castle from the North-East 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-raby-castle-from-the-north-east-r1139494, accessed 21 September 2024.