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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > County Durham and Northumberland 1817 > Raby Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Streatlam Castle 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Streatlam Castle’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Streatlam Castle 1817
D12317
Turner Bequest CLVI 32a
Pencil on white wove paper, 232 x 328 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Rock’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The trees, confined to the right-hand quarter of the page, continue from the full-page view of Streatlam on folio 6 recto opposite (D12264; CLVI 3). Finberg’s tentative title reflects the much-confused and rearranged state of the sketchbook.

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Streatlam Castle 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-streatlam-castle-r1139461, accessed 21 November 2024.