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 29 Recto:
Innerwick Castle, East Lothian 1831
D25978
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 29
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘29’ top right and ‘271’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVII – 29’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of Innerwick Castle is identifiable by comparison with the drawing opposite it in the sketchbook which was identified by Gerald Finley (folio 29; D25977; Turner Bequest CCXLVII 29).1 It was taken from the opposite side of the ruins to the south-east, with the water of Thornton Glen in the foreground at the bottom of the sketch.
For further information see folio 28 verso (D25978; CCLXVII 29).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
Gerald E. Finley, ‘J.M.W. Turner and Sir Walter Scott: Iconography of a Tour’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol.35, 1972, p.367 note 51.

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-r1134348, accessed 27 April 2024.