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 52 Recto:
Caerlaverock Castle 1831
D25863
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 52
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘52’ top right and ‘342’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 52’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of Caerlaverock Castle was made from due south and looks into the castle through the destroyed southern curtain wall. The south-west Murdoch Tower of the triangular castle at the left stands alone as the south-east tower was destroyed in 1640 (see folio 51; D25861).

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-r1134230, accessed 25 April 2024.