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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Scarborough 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Scarborough Castle from Below the Barbican, Looking Down on the Harbour c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scarborough Castle from Below the Barbican, Looking Down on the Harbour’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
Scarborough Castle from Below the Barbican, Looking Down on the Harbour c.1816–18
D11943
Turner Bequest CL 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘cows’ bottom centre
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘24’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CL 24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s viewpoint here is between the barbican of Scarborough Castle and St Mary’s Church, looking up to the barbican and castle buildings left, and down to the lighthouse jetty bottom right, with the cliffs towards Filey in the distance.
Verso:
Blank, except for inscription by ?John Ruskin in red ink bottom left ‘168 Inv’ (see notes to folio 3, D11945; Turner Bequest CL 26).

David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Scarborough Castle from Below the Barbican, Looking Down on the Harbour c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-scarborough-castle-from-below-the-barbican-looking-down-on-r1146945, accessed 19 April 2024.