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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Hilly Landscape; ?a Ruined Castle c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
A Hilly Landscape; ?a Ruined Castle c.1834–6
D27741
Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 9a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘20 . Lisson B[?rack...] Strafford, North Hampton [...]’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There appear to be two slight landscape sketches here, one above the other, both including buildings, the main structure in the lower sketch possibly being a ruined castle. There are numerous unidentified landscapes in this sketchbook, as set out in the Introduction. Some may have been recorded in the vicinity of the scenes of fishing at a weir which begin on folio 15 verso (D27752). The significance of the names or places noted here is as yet unclear. For other inscriptions scattered through the book, see the Introduction.
Technical notes:
There is some watercolour offsetting from folio 10 recto opposite.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Hilly Landscape; ?a Ruined Castle c.1834–6 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-hilly-landscape-a-ruined-castle-r1149105, accessed 29 March 2024.