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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Warkworth Castle and Village from the River Coquet 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Warkworth Castle and Village from the River Coquet’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
Warkworth Castle and Village from the River Coquet 1797
D00945
Turner Bequest XXXIV 38
Pencil on white wove paper, 210 x 270 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘38’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIV 38’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is drawn with the page turned horizontally. A finished watercolour based on this drawing is in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Canada.1 Another, larger watercolour of Warkworth was based on the drawing he made on folio 42 recto (D00947; Turner Bequest XXXIV 40). Ownership of the castle, which dates from the twelfth century, passed from the family of John de Clavering to Henry de Percy in the mid-fourteenth century. The Percys, who became Earls of Northumberland, were succeeded in the mid-eighteenth century by Hugh Smithson, who married into their family, took their name and inaugurated a new creation of Dukes of Northumberland, who remained in possession until 1922 when the 8th Duke passed responsibility for the site to the Office of Works (now English Heritage). Other drawings of Warkworth are on folios 41 recto and 43 recto (D00946, D00948; Turner Bequest XXXIV 39, 41).
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.328 no.257, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Warkworth Castle and Village from the River Coquet 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-warkworth-castle-and-village-from-the-river-coquet-r1150101, accessed 04 January 2025.