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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ayton Castle, near Scarborough 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Ayton Castle, near Scarborough 1816
D09794
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 5
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman | 1811’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Road’ bottom left, ‘Wo’ centre right, and ‘Water’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘5’ bottom right (very faint)
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg misread Turner’s ‘Water’ as ‘Chevin’, thereby incorrectly implying the scene was Otley Chevin near Farnley Hall (see folio 31 recto; D09811; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 19). In fact the building is the ruined Ayton Castle, with the bridge at West Ayton to the south down the valley of the River Derwent. The castle’s prominent corbels are still in place today; it stands about four miles inland, west of the coast at Scarborough (see folio 46 recto; D09866; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 65).
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ayton Castle, near Scarborough 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, 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-ayton-castle-near-scarborough-r1147404, accessed 29 March 2024.