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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Edinburgh, 1818, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Berwick-Upon-Tweed 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berwick-Upon-Tweed’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Berwick-Upon-Tweed 1818
D13491
Turner Bequest CLXVI 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner [illegible]
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of Berwick-Upon-Tweed is continued from folio 21 verso (D13490), and, on this page, shows Berwick Castle in the top right, and part of the bridge over the River Tweed at the bottom left. The inscription could read ‘Berwick’, although it is almost illegible.

Thomas Ardill
December 2007

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Berwick-Upon-Tweed 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-berwick-upon-tweed-r1132036, accessed 23 September 2024.