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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Barnard Castle 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Barnard Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Barnard Castle 1831
D25825
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 33
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘33’ top right, and ‘342’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 33’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Barnard Castle, made from a bridge across the River Tees to the north of the castle, is similar to a sketch that Turner made on the same occasion in the Rokeby and Appleby sketchbook (Tate D25628; Turner Bequest CCLXIV 55a), and recalls an earlier sketch of the castle which he made on his visit over thirty years before in 1797 (Tate D00935; Tate Britain XXXIV 29).
For more information and references to further views of the castle see folio 32 (D25823) in the present sketch book.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Barnard Castle 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-barnard-castle-r1134192, accessed 07 February 2025.