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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Durham: The Castle Seen beyond Trees on the Opposite Bank of the River 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Durham: The Castle Seen beyond Trees on the Opposite Bank of the River’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
Durham: The Castle Seen beyond Trees on the Opposite Bank of the River 1801
D02487
Turner Bequest LIII 17a
Pencil on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘x’ bottom left, on house
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the pages turned horizontally, the subject is continued on folio 18 recto opposite (D02488). For other views of Durham in this sketchbook, see under folio 15 verso (D02483).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Durham: The Castle Seen beyond Trees on the Opposite Bank of the River 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-durham-the-castle-seen-beyond-trees-on-the-opposite-bank-of-r1178509, accessed 17 July 2024.