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 x 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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