J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking Up at the Ruins of Beeston Castle from Below 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking Up at the Ruins of Beeston Castle from Below’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
Looking Up at the Ruins of Beeston Castle from Below 1801
D05142
Turner Bequest LXXXII 63
Pencil on white wove paper, 256 x 161 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘63’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 63’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of several drawings showing Beeston Castle in this sketchbook; see under folio 60 recto (D05139).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking Up at the Ruins of Beeston Castle from Below 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-looking-up-at-the-ruins-of-beeston-castle-from-below-r1178711, accessed 23 April 2024.