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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking over Rocks to the Sea, with Part of a Ruined Castle on the Skyline 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking over Rocks to the Sea, with Part of a Ruined Castle on the Skyline’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Looking over Rocks to the Sea, with Part of a Ruined Castle on the Skyline 1801
D02692
Turner Bequest LIV 56
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘56’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LIV 56’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 55 verso opposite (D02691), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking over Rocks to the Sea, with Part of 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-looking-over-rocks-to-the-sea-with-part-of-a-ruined-castle-r1178878, accessed 20 September 2024.