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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Newark Castle from the North 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Newark Castle from the North’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
Newark Castle from the North 1831
D25669
Turner Bequest CCLXV 16a
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across this page and folio 17 (D25670) is a view of Newark Castle near Selkirk from across the Yarrow Water to the north. Turner made similar views at the same time in the Abbotsford sketchbook (Tate D26066; Turner Bequest CCLXVII 79), one of which became the basis for his watercolour Newark Castle circa 1832 (private collection)1 that was engraved for Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works.
Turner made another sketch of Newark on folio 16 (D25668), and in the Abbotsford sketchbook (Tate D26066; Turner Bequest CCLXVII 79). In 1834 he returned to the castle, making sketches in the Edinburgh sketchbook (Tate D26167; Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 37a).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.428 no.1081.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Newark Castle from the North 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-newark-castle-from-the-north-r1134033, accessed 18 May 2024.