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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Jedburgh High Street; and Hailes Castle 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Jedburgh High Street; and Hailes Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
?Jedburgh High Street; and Hailes Castle 1831
D25683
Turner Bequest CCLXV 23a
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook inverted is a view along a street with a large hill in the distance. This may be Jedburgh High Street looking south with the hill at Ulston in the distance.
At the outer edge of the page, with the sketchbook rotated right from its usual orientation, is a sketch inscribed ‘Hailes’. This must therefore show Hailes Castle near East Linton, a village half way between Dunbar and Haddington. This very slight sketch seems to be from the north. Turner made another tiny sketch of the castle on the inside back cover of this sketchbook (D41234), and perhaps another on folio 32 (D25699) and several more in the Abbotsford sketchbook (Tate D25971; Turner Bequest CCLXVII 24a).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘?Jedburgh High Street; and Hailes Castle 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-jedburgh-high-street-and-hailes-castle-r1134047, accessed 18 September 2024.