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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Middleham Castle and Church from the South-East’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
Middleham Castle and Church from the South-East 1816
D10970
Turner Bequest CXLIV 55a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 56 (D10971), opposite, recording the view of the south-east aspect of Middleham Castle, from a lower and nearer viewpoint to the double-spread on folios 53 verso–54 (D10966–D10967). The castle is indicated here only skeletally here since it is studied in detail from this angle on folios 54 verso–55 (D10968–D10969).
For Middleham in this sketchbook see folio 47 verso (D10954).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Middleham Castle and Church 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-and-church-from-the-south-east-r1144158, accessed 20 September 2024.