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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of the River Tweed Near Ashestiel; Newark Castle; and Boats in a Harbour 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of the River Tweed Near Ashestiel; Newark Castle; and Boats in a Harbour’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Verso:
Sketches of the River Tweed Near Ashestiel; Newark Castle; and Boats in a Harbour 1831
D26083
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 87a
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Newark’ top right and ?‘Dunbar Harbour’ bottom inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The first sketch to be made on this page (which has been turned to the right) is the second sketch down, and shows a view along the River Tweed near Ashestiel looking west from the road towards Yair. There are two similar views on folios 85 and 86 (D26082, D26084; CCLXVII 85, 88). For further information on Turner’s sketches of Ashestiel see folio 88 (D26088; CCLXVII 90).
Turner then used this page again two days later when he visited Newark Castle, turning the page to the left this time and drawing at the top a view of the castle from banks of the Yarrow Water to the north. See folio 77 (D26066; CCLXVII 79) for more information about Tuner’s visit to Newark.
Finally, the sketchbook was taken up again to make two small and slight sketches of boats at a harbour at the outer edge of the page. The sketch may be inscribed ‘Dunbar Harbour’.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Sketches of the River Tweed Near Ashestiel; Newark Castle; and Boats in a Harbour 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-sketches-of-the-river-tweed-near-ashestiel-newark-castle-and-r1134451, accessed 26 April 2024.