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 Crichton Castle 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Crichton Castle’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Verso:
Crichton Castle 1818
D13733
Turner Bequest CLXVII 80a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of Crichton Castle from the north is one of a series of such views in this sketchbook that track Turner’s progress north as he returned to Edinburgh from a day’s sketching (see folio 86; D13728; CLXVII 78). This sketch is from a point near the village of Crichton and looks south along the valley of the Tyne River with trees and barn-like buildings in the foreground and the castle in the distance. To the left of the castle a square shape may indicate Crichton Collegiate Church.

Thomas Ardill
April 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Crichton Castle 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-crichton-castle-r1132290, accessed 26 April 2024.