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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Skipton Castle from the North 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Skipton Castle from the North’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Skipton Castle from the North 1816
D11057
Turner Bequest CXLV 11a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Skipton’ towards bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records a distant view of Skipton Castle from the north, and is the most distant view of the castle in a series that includes folios 26 verso and 27 verso (D11080, D11078), which precede this, together with folios 171 recto and 172 recto (D11337, D11339; Turner Bequest CXLV 170, 171, near the beginning of this sketchbook as Turner used it, but probably made on the same occasion) and culminating in a detailed study in the Yorkshire 4 book (Tate D11454; Turner Bequest CXLVII 7a). This sketch, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is upside-down in relation to the main sequence (see the sketchbook’s Introduction).
Turner visited Skipton at both the beginning and end of his tour of 1816, on 17 July and 11 August, according to the present author.1 These sketches relate to the second visit. Other sketches, recording views along Eller Beck, occur at the beginning of the sketchbook, starting on folio 186 recto (D11367; Turner Bequest CXLV 185).

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.36–8, 100–2.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Skipton Castle from the North 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-skipton-castle-from-the-north-r1201643, accessed 17 May 2024.