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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Caerlaverock Castle 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Caerlaverock Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
Caerlaverock Castle 1831
D25862
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 51v
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view from the south-east of Caerlaverock Castle looks inside the castle through the ruined south-east tower and missing southern curtain wall. Turner has taken care to include all the windows, doorways and chimneys in this methodical study, which forms a group of sketches that record his clockwise circumnavigation of the structure (see folio 49 verso; D25858).
Above the sketch are two small detail studies of windows.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Caerlaverock 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-caerlaverock-castle-r1134229, accessed 19 April 2024.