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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Helmsley Castle: Part of the Ruins Seen among Trees 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Helmsley Castle: Part of the Ruins Seen among Trees’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Helmsley Castle: Part of the Ruins Seen among Trees 1801
D05078
Turner Bequest LXXXII 5
Pencil on white wove paper, 256 x 161 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘3’ top right
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘5’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Helmsley Castle see under folio 3 recto (D05076).
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in pencil ‘Yorkshire’, and in a twentieth–century hand ‘Prob. Helmsley | p 8 sch[edule] 147’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Helmsley Castle: Part of the Ruins Seen among Trees 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-helmsley-castle-part-of-the-ruins-seen-among-trees-r1178646, accessed 25 April 2024.