Joseph Mallord William Turner

Helmsley Castle from the South-West

1801

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Chester Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 161 × 256 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D05082
Turner Bequest LXXXII 9

Catalogue entry

The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. The viewpoint here is closer than that on folio 8 recto (D05081). For Helmsley Castle see under folio 3 recto (D05076).

The Turner scholar C.F. Bell suggested that the rectos of folios 7–12 (D05080–D05084, D05086) have views of Barnard Castle, County Durham.1 An alternative identification for the sequence is Pickering, on the road between Helmsley and Scarborough.

Undated MS note by C.F. Bell (died 1966) in a copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.219.

Verso:

Inscribed in pencil ‘Yorkshire’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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