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 89 Recto:
Crichton Castle 1818
D13734
Turner Bequest CLXVII 81
Pencil on white wove paper, 186 x 112mm
Inscribed in blue ink ‘81’ bottom right descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CLXVII 81’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned to the right is a rapid sketch of Crichton Castle from across the Tyne valley to the north-west. We look towards the castle’s west range with the stable block nearby on the right. Turner’s heavily drawn pencil scribbles indicating the rough ground of the hills and the shadowy areas created by the setting sun prefigure the wide, dramatic, shadowy landscape that he depicted in his treatment of Crichton Castle, circa 1818 (The Morgan Library and Museum, New York), for Scott’s Provincial Antiquities.1
For more information see folio 86 (D13728; CLXVII 78).

Thomas Ardill
April 2008

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.425 no.1059.

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-r1132291, accessed 19 April 2024.