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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Scarborough 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Scarborough Castle from the West; Cattle on the Cliff below the Keep c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scarborough Castle from the West; Cattle on the Cliff below the Keep’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Scarborough Castle from the West; Cattle on the Cliff below the Keep c.1816–18
D11949
Turner Bequest CL 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Watermarked ‘... HAYES | [1]812’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘?]Grass’ bottom centre
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘30’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CL 30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records the view from immediately west of the barbican of Scarborough Castle, looking east along the north bay escarpment to the keep. The panorama is continued to the right in another sketch in the sequence (D11943; Turner Bequest CL 24) to take in the view on the south bay side of the castle. Turner recorded similar material to that panorama in a further sketch (D11917; Turner Bequest CL 3) recorded from a viewpoint slightly further to the right (south) and similar material to the present subject in yet another sketch (D11929; Turner Bequest CL 12) from a still more distant viewpoint.
Verso:
Blank, except for an inscription by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘168 I’ [deleted] (see notes to folio 3, D11945; Turner Bequest CL 26), and ‘1245’ bottom left.

David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Scarborough Castle from the West; Cattle on the Cliff below the Keep c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-scarborough-castle-from-the-west-cattle-on-the-cliff-below-r1146944, accessed 19 April 2024.