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 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Distant View of Scarborough Castle from the South c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Distant View of Scarborough Castle from the South’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
A Distant View of Scarborough Castle from the South c.1816–18
D11957
Turner Bequest CLI 5a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 182 mm
Watermarked ‘R BA[RNARD | 1[812]’
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘169’ bottom left, along bottom edge
Stamped in brown ‘CLI 5a’ bottom right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records a view of Scarborough Castle seen to the right of a headland, evidently at some distance south, possibly as far as Osgodby Point. Turner, however, has very much shortened the castle headland, making it hard to work out the exact orientation.
A small piece is missing from the outer edge of this leaf. See notes to the recto (D11956; Turner Bequest CLI 5) for its removal from and reinstatement in the sketchbook.

David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Distant View of Scarborough Castle from the South 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-a-distant-view-of-scarborough-castle-from-the-south-r1146980, accessed 25 April 2024.