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 Prudhoe Castle from the Tyne Valley 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prudhoe Castle from the Tyne Valley’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Recto:
Prudhoe Castle from the Tyne Valley 1817
D12421
Turner Bequest CLVII 80
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘80’ top left, upside down (very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLVII – 80’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a very slight continuation of the profile of the small island in the River Tyne in the foreground of the sketch of Prudhoe Castle on folio 79 verso opposite (D12420).
Technical notes:
There is some patchy staining or a paper fault across the upper part of the page, which does not show through to the verso (D12422) except as a slight rippling; in transmitted light it appears paler than the rest of the sheet.

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Prudhoe Castle from the Tyne Valley 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-prudhoe-castle-from-the-tyne-valley-r1139422, accessed 01 January 2025.