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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hornby Castle from the East 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hornby Castle from the East’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Hornby Castle from the East 1816
D10991
Turner Bequest CXLIV 68
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed, possibly John Ruskin, in blue ink bled-out in red ‘68’ top left, inverted (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 68’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 67 verso (D10990), opposite, recording Hornby Castle from the east and supplying greater detail for the composition sketched from a greater distance in folios 62 verso–63 of the sketchbook (D10983–D10984). Turner sketched the south and south-west aspects in the Yorkshire 3 sketchbook (Tate D11413–D11418; Turner Bequest CXLVI 27a–30).
For Hornby Castle in the present sketchbook see folio 62 verso (D10983).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Hornby Castle from the 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-hornby-castle-from-the-east-r1144180, accessed 19 September 2024.