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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > County Durham and Northumberland 1817 > Durham, North Shore, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bywell Castle and the River Tyne 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bywell Castle and the River Tyne’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Recto:
Bywell Castle and the River Tyne 1817
D12437
Turner Bequest CLVII 88
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘88’ bottom right (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLVII – 88’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Despite Finberg’s description, this is a slight continuation of trees by the River Tyne in the view of Bywell Castle on folio 87 verso opposite (D12436).

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Bywell Castle and the River Tyne 1817 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2010, 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-bywell-castle-and-the-river-tyne-r1139438, accessed 27 December 2024.