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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Twizel Castle above a Single-Arched Bridge 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Twizel Castle above a Single-Arched Bridge’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 92 Verso:
Twizel Castle above a Single–Arched Bridge 1801
D02599
Turner Bequest LIII 92a
Pencil on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1’ towards top left, above the castle
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 93 recto opposite (D02600). On the present page there are additional details of architecture sketched towards the top right. The figures inscribed over the main drawing indicate the fenestration scheme of the front of the house visible from the road and the river.
For a note on the building see under folio 68 verso (D02569), and see also a further drawing on folio 99 verso (D02611).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Twizel Castle above a Single–Arched Bridge 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-twizel-castle-above-a-single-arched-bridge-r1178621, accessed 21 September 2024.