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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Scarborough 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Scarborough Castle, from above the North Bay c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scarborough Castle, from above the North Bay’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
Scarborough Castle, from above the North Bay c.1816–18
D11929
Turner Bequest CL 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘sand’ left of centre; ‘cattle’, ‘water’ bottom left; ‘grass Bracken Gr’ centre, and ‘R B[?]’ centre right (indicating colour of exposed cliff)
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘12’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CL 12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s viewpoint here is from the cliffs above the north bay at Scarborough, near the junction of the present Queen’s Parade with Albert Road, from the north-west rather than the north as stated by Finberg. It records similar material to another sketch in the sequence (D11949; Turner Bequest CL 30) but from a more distant viewpoint. The view from the same spot, but looking in a northerly direction, is recorded in another sketch (D11927; Turner Bequest CL 11). These sketches are separated in the present pagination, but the connection suggests that the numbering given by Finberg might have corresponded to their original order.
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David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Scarborough Castle, from above the North Bay c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-scarborough-castle-from-above-the-north-bay-r1146946, accessed 22 July 2024.