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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ruined Castle on a Hill above a River, Seen from Below 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ruined Castle on a Hill above a River, Seen from Below’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
A Ruined Castle on a Hill above a River, Seen from Below 1801
D02659
Turner Bequest LIV 39
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘39’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LIV 39’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is possibly a view of Roslin; see the verso (D02660) and subsequent pages.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Ruined Castle on a Hill above a River, Seen from Below 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-a-ruined-castle-on-a-hill-above-a-river-seen-from-below-r1178845, accessed 25 April 2024.