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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hilly Landscape with a Ruined Castle on the Skyline 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hilly Landscape with a Ruined Castle on the Skyline’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Verso:
Hilly Landscape with a Ruined Castle on the Skyline 1801
D02520
Turner Bequest LIII 35a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 162 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, the building in view here may once again be the Gatehouse at Morpeth; see under folio 28 verso (D02509). Alternatively, it may be one of the pele towers that Turner is likely to have passed on his way through Northumberland; see the drawings of apparently similar towers on folios 37 recto and 39 verso (D02523, D02528).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Hilly Landscape with a Ruined Castle on the Skyline 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-hilly-landscape-with-a-ruined-castle-on-the-skyline-r1178542, accessed 19 April 2024.