Joseph Mallord William Turner

Bowes Castle

1831

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rokeby and Appleby Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 74 × 94 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D25630
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 56 a

Catalogue entry

On the page, used with the sketchbook inverted, are three sketches of the town of Bowes and Bowes Castle, just five miles from Barnard Castle (folio 55 verso; D25628). The top and middle sketches show the castle from the north-east with the parish church of St Giles and other buildings, and the narrow, winding River Greta to the left. At the bottom of the page is a rough sketch of these same buildings. There are views of Bowes Castle from the south on folios 4 verso and 5 of this sketchbook (D25531, D25532).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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