Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Lilburn Tower, Dunstanburgh Castle, with the Sea and a Stormy Sky

?1797

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Wilson Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper
Dimensions
Support: 113 × 93 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D01211
Turner Bequest XXXVII 94

Catalogue entry

Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the composition continues across folio 47 recto opposite (D01212; Turner Bequest XXXVII 95). The present author proposed that this shows the Lilburn Tower of Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland, which Turner saw on his northern tour of summer 1797;1 this identification was followed by Ian Warrell.2 See the watercolour view in the North of England sketchbook (Tate D00954; Turner Bequest XXXIV 46a).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

1
Wilton 1988, p.34
2
Warrell 1996, p.[7].

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