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Joseph Mallord William Turner  1775-1851

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for 'Bamburgh Castle' circa 1837
Study for 'Bamburgh Castle'  circa 1837

Watercolour on paper
support: 487 x 612 mm
on paper, unique

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

D25457
Finberg number: CCLXIII 334
Bamborough Castle commands an imposing position on the Northumberland coast. Turner made his first drawings of it during his visit in 1797. This watercolour is one of several large studies of the castle, in all of which Turner has concentrated on the storm clouds in the distance, leaving blank the area intended for the castle. A finished watercolour of this subject exists in a private collection in America.
 (From the display caption September 2004)