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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Scotch Antiquities Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dunbar Castle 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dunbar Castle’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
Dunbar Castle 1818
D13623
Turner Bequest CLXVII 22a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘grass’ top right; ‘Rock’ centre; ?‘grass’ lower centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A view of Dunbar Castle from the west, continuing on folio 24 (D13624; CLXVII 23); the present page, like folio 22 verso (D13621; CLXVII 21a) is dominated by a large rock in the foreground at the left. Although this part of the sketch is rather slight, Turner has made three inscriptions recording variations in its appearance, with areas of ‘grass’ and ‘rock’. At the right are several rocks just off the coast where the promontory, on which the castle was built, falls into the sea.

Thomas Ardill
February 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Dunbar Castle 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2008, 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-dunbar-castle-r1132171, accessed 25 April 2024.