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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bothwell Castle Rising above Woods, from the North-West 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bothwell Castle Rising above Woods, from the North-West’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 168 Verso:
Bothwell Castle Rising above Woods, from the North-West 1801
D03239
Turner Bequest LVI 166a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bothwell castle’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the pages turned horizontally, the subject is continued on folio 169 recto opposite (D03240; Turner Bequest LVI 167). This is one of three drawings of the castle in this sketchbook; see also folios 165 verso–166 recto and 169 verso–170 recto (D03233–D03234, D03241–D03242; Turner Bequest LVI 163a–164, 167a–168).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Bothwell Castle Rising above Woods, from the North-West 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-bothwell-castle-rising-above-woods-from-the-north-west-r1179435, accessed 16 April 2024.