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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Middleham Castle and Church from the South-East 1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
Middleham Castle and Church from the South-East 1816
D10967
Turner Bequest CXLIV 54
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed, possibly John Ruskin, in blue ink bled-out in red ‘54’ top right (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 54’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread continued to the right from folio 53 verso (D10966), opposite.
For Middleham in this sketchbook see folio 47 verso (D10954).
See Introduction and Technical notes to this sketchbook for the change of ink colour, apparently from blue to red, in the numbering of this page.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Middleham Castle and Church from the South-East 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-middleham-castle-and-church-from-the-south-east-r1144155, accessed 28 March 2024.