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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Norham: The Castle Seen from the Opposite Bank of the Tweed, Looking South 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Norham: The Castle Seen from the Opposite Bank of the Tweed, Looking South’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
Norham: The Castle Seen from the Opposite Bank of the Tweed, Looking South 1801
D02544
Turner Bequest LIII 47a
Pencil on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 48 recto opposite (D02545). This is one of a sequence of views of Norham in this book; see under folio 42 verso (D02534). Turner has redrawn the silhouette of the castle to adjust its scale in relation to the scene as a whole.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Norham: The Castle Seen from the Opposite Bank of the Tweed, Looking South 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-norham-the-castle-seen-from-the-opposite-bank-of-the-tweed-r1178566, accessed 23 September 2024.