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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ruined Castle Keep on a Hill above a River, with a Village Beyond 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ruined Castle Keep on a Hill above a River, with a Village Beyond’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 99 Verso:
A Ruined Castle Keep on a Hill above a River, with a Village Beyond 1801
D02778
Turner Bequest LIV 99a
Pencil with scraping-out on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued briefly on folio 100 recto opposite (D02779).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Ruined Castle Keep on a Hill above a River, with a Village Beyond 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-a-ruined-castle-keep-on-a-hill-above-a-river-with-a-village-r1178964, accessed 26 April 2024.