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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Newark Castle, Selkirkshire 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Newark Castle, Selkirkshire’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
Newark Castle, Selkirkshire 1834
D26165
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 36a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Newark Castle was made from the north-west, near the bridge over the Yarrow Water at Broadmeadows. The view was familiar to Turner from his visit in 1831, when he made sketches (Tate D26066; Turner Bequest CCLXVII 79) that became the basis of a watercolour, engraved as a vignette to illustrate Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works: Newark Castle, circa 1832 (private collection).1
This is the second in a sequence of six sketches of the castle in this sketchbook, made as Turner passed the ruin on his way from St Mary’s Loch to Selkirk: folios 36–38 verso (D26164–D26169). For more information about Turner’s route see the Edinburgh sketchbook 1834 Introduction.

Thomas Ardill
January 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.428 no.1081.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Newark Castle, Selkirkshire 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2010, 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-newark-castle-selkirkshire-r1136093, accessed 23 September 2024.