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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Innerwick Castle; and Haddington Church 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Innerwick Castle; and Haddington Church’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Innerwick Castle; and Haddington Church 1831
D25684
Turner Bequest CCLXV 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Inn’ upper centre
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘24’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXV 24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top half of the page is a sketch of Innerwick Castle, which Turner visited on 11 August 1831 (see Tate D26003; Turner Bequest CCLXVII 45a). The view, labelled ‘inn’, is from the south-west. Turner made several sketches of the castle ruins from this angle in the current sketchbook (folio 23; D25682), and in the Abbotsford book (Tate D25988; Turner Bequest CCLXVII 36). There is another view of the castle on folio 8 of the current sketchbook (D25655).
With the book inverted is a sketch of Haddington Church. Turner passed through Haddington on his way to Edinburgh from Berwick-upon-Tweed, having visited Innerwick. He probably made this rapid sketch, and perhaps another on folio 13 (D25664) before working up several more detailed studies in the Abbotsford sketchbook (see Tate D26003; Turner Bequest CCLXVII 45a).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Innerwick Castle; and Haddington Church 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-innerwick-castle-and-haddington-church-r1134048, accessed 27 April 2024.