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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Middleham Castle and Church from the South-East’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Middleham Castle and Church from the South-East 1816
D10971
Turner Bequest CXLIV 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed, possibly John Ruskin, in blue ink bled-out in red ‘56’ top right (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 56’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread continued from folio 55 verso (D10970), opposite, recording the view of the south-east aspect of Middleham Castle, from a lower and nearer viewpoint to the sketch on folios 53 verso–54 (D10966–D10967). The castle is indicated here only skeletally since it is studied in detail from this angle on folios 54 verso–55 (D10968–D10969).
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-r1144159, accessed 25 April 2024.