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 34 Verso:
Dunbar Castle 1818
D13641
Turner Bequest CLXVII 32a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Dunbar Castle is here seen from the west as in folios 18 verso–24 (D13615–D13624; CLXVII 17a–23), with the South Battery and castle gate – continued on folio 35 (D13642; CLXVII 33) – sitting atop the rocky promontory. On the present page are the Long Craigs, with one almost conical-shaped rock also recognisable on folio 24, where the view of the castle is seen from the same spot.
There is a pink smudge at the top left of the page transferred from Ruskin’s now faded numbering in red ink on the opposite page, and a yellow mark along the top edge of the page where the painted edge of the sketchbook has bled through.

Thomas Ardill
March 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Dunbar Castle 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-r1132189, accessed 10 May 2024.