Joseph Mallord William Turner

Hornby Castle from the East

1816

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Yorkshire 1 Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 154 × 97 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D10991
Turner Bequest CXLIV 68

Catalogue entry

This is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 67 verso (D10990), opposite, recording Hornby Castle from the east and supplying greater detail for the composition sketched from a greater distance in folios 62 verso–63 of the sketchbook (D10983–D10984). Turner sketched the south and south-west aspects in the Yorkshire 3 sketchbook (Tate D11413–D11418; Turner Bequest CXLVI 27a–30).
For Hornby Castle in the present sketchbook see folio 62 verso (D10983).

David Hill
January 2009

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