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 River Tyne 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bywell Castle and the River Tyne’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Verso:
Bywell Castle and the River Tyne 1817
D12432
Turner Bequest CLVII 85a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?will]’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very slight outline includes the castle on the right and the tower of St Andrew’s Church beyond the bend of the Tyne to the south-west. Turner’s inscription may indicate willows on the bank. This is one of a sequence of studies of Bywell between folio 81 verso (D12424) and folio 88 verso (D12438); for the history of the castle, see the entry for folio 81 verso.

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Bywell Castle and the River Tyne 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-river-tyne-r1139433, accessed 26 April 2024.