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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 4 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bolton Castle and Castle Bolton Church, Wensleydale, from the North-East 1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bolton Castle and Castle Bolton Church, Wensleydale, from the North-East’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Bolton Castle and Castle Bolton Church, Wensleydale, from the North-East 1816
D11469
Turner Bequest CXLVII 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘279’ bottom right and ‘18’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVII 18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Bolton Castle in this sketchbook see folio 17 recto (D11468). Here, Turner shows the north-east corner, with Castle Bolton Church in the foreground, continued to the left in a few lines on D40840, opposite. The north-east tower of the castle is missing. It collapsed on the evening of 19 November 1761, reportedly from damage sustained in the seventeenth century, during the Civil War.
Turner sketched similar views in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11252, D11251; Turner Bequest CXLV 126, 125a; drawn in this order), which accompanied him on the same tour.

David Hill
February 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Bolton Castle and Castle Bolton Church, Wensleydale, from the North-East 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-bolton-castle-and-castle-bolton-church-wensleydale-from-the-r1143604, accessed 25 April 2024.