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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Ruined Gateway of a Castle 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Ruined Gateway of a Castle’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 100 Verso:
The Ruined Gateway of a Castle 1801
D02780
Turner Bequest LIV 100a
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Partial watermark ‘94 | tman’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 101 recto opposite (D02781). The castle is perhaps that shown on folios 99 verso–100 recto (D02778–D02778). Finberg suggested that these are the ruins of Pickering Castle,1 but this does not seem to be the case.
1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.139.
Technical notes:
The touches of white gouache used for highlights have oxidised and darkened.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Ruined Gateway of a Castle 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-the-ruined-gateway-of-a-castle-r1178966, accessed 24 April 2024.