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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1831 > Rokeby and Appleby Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Three Towers 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Three Towers’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
The Three Towers 1831
D25582
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch remains unidentified, although the towers and turrets are likely to belong to a castle, and the buildings at the right suggest that the sketch may have been taken from outside the castle gates. Based on other sketches made on this tour and in this sketchbook the most likely location is Carlisle Castle, although it cannot be closely matched.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Three Towers 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, 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-the-three-towers-r1133942, accessed 19 April 2024.