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

The series of four rapidly executed sketches across this page are hard to identify with certainty. Their style is not typical of the sketches made at Rokeby Park (made on the adjacent pages in this sketchbook); they have more in common with a series of rough landscape studies which begin on folio 14 verso (D25551). Finberg’s reading of Turner’s inscription as ‘Bruce Castle’ does not correspond to anything on Turner’s route. An alternative suggestion could be ‘Brough Castle’, and several of the sketches bear a stylistic similarity to folio 37 verso (D25596) which may also be of this structure, which Turner sketched on his way to Appleby.