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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Middleham Castle from the South-East 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Middleham Castle from the South-East’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Recto:
Middleham Castle from the South-East 1816
D10969
Turner Bequest CXLIV 55
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed, possibly John Ruskin, in blue ink bled-out in red ‘55’ top right (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 55’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread continued from folio 54 verso (D10968), opposite, recording a detailed study of the south-east aspect of Middleham Castle, from a similar viewpoint to the previous sketch, folios 53 verso–54 (D10966–D10967), and supplying the detail for the following across the verso and folio 56 (D10970–D10971). Turner has drawn two architectural details, above right.
For Middleham in this sketchbook see folio 47 verso (D10954).
See Introduction and Technical notes to this sketchbook for the change of ink colour, apparently from blue to red, in the numbering of this page.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Middleham Castle from the South-East 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-middleham-castle-from-the-south-east-r1144157, accessed 26 April 2024.