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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ruins of Castle, ?Brougham, Penrith 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ruins of Castle, ?Brougham, Penrith’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Ruins of Castle, ?Brougham, Penrith 1831
D25560
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches of a castle drawn across this page and folio 20 (D25561) have not been identified with any certainty, though they somewhat resemble Brougham Castle near Penrith, which Turner sketched in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border sketchbook (Tate D25833; Turner Bequest CCLXVI 37). Part of the difficulty in identifying the sketches is that the three or four sketches across the double-page-spread overlap with each other and it is not certain whether the sketch at the right of the present page continue on folio 20, or if that is a separate drawing.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Ruins of Castle, ?Brougham, Penrith 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-ruins-of-castle-brougham-penrith-r1133920, accessed 23 September 2024.