Newark Castle, Selkirkshire

1834

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In Tate Britain

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Edinburgh Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 111 x 181 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D26165
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 36 a

Catalogue entry

This view of Newark Castle was made from the north-west, near the bridge over the Yarrow Water at Broadmeadows. The view was familiar to Turner from his visit in 1831, when he made sketches (Tate D26066; Turner Bequest CCLXVII 79) that became the basis of a watercolour, engraved as a vignette to illustrate Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works: Newark Castle, circa 1832 (private collection).1

This is the second in a sequence of six sketches of the castle in this sketchbook, made as Turner passed the ruin on his way from St Mary’s Loch to Selkirk: folios 36–38 verso (D26164–D26169). For more information about Turner’s route see the Edinburgh sketchbook 1834 Introduction.

Thomas Ardill
January 2010

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.428 no.1081.

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