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 36 Recto:
Innerwick Castle, East Lothian 1831
D25988
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 36
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘36’ top right and ‘271’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVII – 36’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A comparison of this sketch with the drawing in folio 28 verso (D25977; CCLXVII 28a) suggests that this is Innerwick Castle. A photograph of the castle from the south-west in the archive of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland also matches this sketch quite closely.1
There is a similar view but from further away on folio 53 of this sketchbook (D26017; CCLXVII 53). For more information on the castle see folio 28 verso.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
‘Innerwick Castle’, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, accessed September 2009, http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/58912/details/innerwick+castle/.

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-r1134358, accessed 14 May 2024.