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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Skipton Castle from the North 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Skipton Castle from the North’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Skipton Castle from the North 1816
D11064
Turner Bequest CXLV 15
Partial watermark ‘I & E | 1’
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Ash’, ‘Rock’ and ‘Skipton’ centre left
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘15’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV 15’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right part of a two-part panorama of Skipton Castle from the north, drawn with the pages turned horizontally and continued to the right from folio 14 verso opposite (D11063), to include a distant view of Pendle Hill. It is one of the most distant views of the castle in a series that includes folios 26 verso and 27 verso (D11078, D11080), which precede this, together with the rectos of folios 171 and 172 (D11337, D11339; Turner Bequest CXLV 170, 171, near the beginning of this sketchbook as Turner used it, but probably made on the same occasion), and culminating in a detailed study in the Yorkshire 4 sketchbook (Tate D11454; Turner Bequest CXLVII 7a).
Turner visited Skipton at both the beginning and end of his tour of 1816, on 17 July and 11 August, according to the present author.1 These sketches relate to the second visit. Other sketches, recording views from below on Eller Beck, occur at the beginning of the sketchbook’s sequence, starting on folio 186 recto (D11367; Turner Bequest CXLV 185). This sketch is upside-down in relation to the main sequence (see the sketchbook’s Introduction).
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See Hill 1984, pp.36–8, 100–2.
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David Hill
April 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Skipton Castle from the North 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-skipton-castle-from-the-north-r1201650, accessed 25 November 2024.