Joseph Mallord William Turner

Newark Castle

1831

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Abbotsford Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 113 × 185 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D26071
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 81 a

Catalogue entry

With the sketchbook inverted this view of Newark Castle from the south-east was probably made as Turner approached the castle on foot from the Bowhill entrance, accompanied by Robert Cadell. Dropping down to the edge of the Yarrow Water, Turner sketched the view from the riverbank with the castle seen between trees on either side.
For an account of Turner’s visit to Newark Castle, his movements around it, and references to other depictions of it see folio 77 (D26066; CCLXVII 79).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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