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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bowhill House, near Selkirk 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bowhill House, near Selkirk’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Bowhill House, near Selkirk 1834
D26171
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 39a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Bowhill House, as suggested by David Wallace-Hadrill,1 matches this sketch well with its square central section and lower wings either side. The view is from across the Yarrow Water to the east with Pernassie Hill behind. The sketch was made as Turner made his way from St Mary’s Loch to Selkirk on 2 October 1834; see Edinburgh sketchbook 1834 Introduction. Adjacent pages of the sketchbook depict the nearby Newark Castle (folios 36–38 verso; D26164–D26169) and the town of Selkirk (folios 40–42; D26172–D26176).

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

1
David Wallace-Hadrill, ‘CCLXVIII checklist’, circa 1991, Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Bowhill House, near Selkirk 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2011, 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-bowhill-house-near-selkirk-r1136099, accessed 17 December 2024.