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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Innerwick Castle, East Linton; and Berwick Castle 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Innerwick Castle, East Linton; and Berwick Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Verso:
Innerwick Castle, East Linton; and Berwick Castle 1831
D26029
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 60a
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main sketch on this page bears a close resemblance to the sketch on folio 28 verso (D22977; CCLXVII 28a) which Gerald Finley has identified as Innerwick Castle.1 The ruin sits at the top of a rocky cliff and is seen here from across the glen to the north. There is another similar view on folio 10 verso (D25945; CCLXVII 10a).
At the left of the page with the sketchbook turned to the right is a small sketch of part of the remains of Berwick Castle from the west. Turner made a series of studies of Berwick-upon-Tweed from this position in preparation for his watercolour Berwick-upon-Tweed circa 1832 (whereabouts unknown),2 engraved for volume 12 of Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works. See folio 48 verso (D26009; CCLXVII 48a) for more information.

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.
2
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.430 no.1092.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Innerwick Castle, East Linton; and Berwick 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-innerwick-castle-east-linton-and-berwick-castle-r1134397, accessed 24 April 2024.