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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bowes Castle 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bowes Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Bowes Castle 1831
D25820
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Bowes Castle was made from just across the River Greta, directly to the south. The castle stands at the top of a low hill and to its right is the Church of St Giles. In the left foreground the rapidly flowing water shows where Mill Force enters the Greta, and the mill is shown at the right. Turner’s next sketch on folio 31 (D25821) was made from just east of the mill and was used as the basis of his vignette illustration to volume 9 of Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works: Bowes Tower circa 1832 (watercolour, Bowes Museum).1

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.429 no.1087.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Bowes 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-bowes-castle-r1134187, accessed 20 September 2024.