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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > County Durham and Northumberland 1817 > Durham, North Shore, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bywell Castle and the Ruined Tyne Bridge 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bywell Castle and the Ruined Tyne Bridge’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Verso:
Bywell Castle and the Ruined Tyne Bridge 1817
D12426
Turner Bequest CLVII 82a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With a summary indication of the skyline of Bywell beyond the bridge piers, this is a similar view, from slightly closer to the bridge and castle, to the sketch on folio 81 verso (D12424), which stands at one end of the sequence of studies at Bywell, running to folio 88 verso (D12438); for the history of the castle and bridge, see the entry for folio 81 verso.
There is an ink wash study from the same angle among Northumberland views made in about 1778 by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (British Library, London, Additional MS 15543).1

Matthew Imms
February 2010

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‘Bywell’, British Library Online Gallery, accessed 10 February 2010, http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/grimms/countcast/bywellcast/bywellvill/005add000015543u00003000.html.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Bywell Castle and the Ruined Tyne Bridge 1817 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-bywell-castle-and-the-ruined-tyne-bridge-r1139427, accessed 18 April 2024.