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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Innerwick Castle, East Lothian 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Innerwick Castle, East Lothian’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
Innerwick Castle, East Lothian 1831
D25750
Turner Bequest CCLXV 60
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 59 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘60’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXV 60’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
On a high cliff above Thornton Burn stand the ruins of Innerwick Castle. Turner must have climbed down the glen to make this view from the north with the sketchbook turned to the left. The artist made a number of sketches from various angles of the castle in this and the Abbotsford sketchbooks (see folio 8; D25655 for further details).
There is a smaller, slighter sketch at the top of this page which probably represents Innerwick again.
This page has been reattached to the sketchbook.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Innerwick Castle, East Lothian 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-east-lothian-r1134114, accessed 25 April 2024.