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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Norham Castle, with the River Tweed at the Left 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Norham Castle, with the River Tweed at the Left’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Verso:
Norham Castle, with the River Tweed at the Left 1801
D02534
Turner Bequest LIII 42a
Pencil on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 43 recto (D02535). This is the first of a sequence of views of Norham in this book, followed by those on folios 43 verso–50 recto (D02536–D02549), most of them occupying double pages. Norham was to be a subject of lifelong interest to Turner; see under folio 44 verso (D02538).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Norham Castle, with the River Tweed at the Left 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-norham-castle-with-the-river-tweed-at-the-left-r1178556, accessed 19 September 2024.