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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Helmsley Castle: The Keep from the South-East 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Helmsley Castle: The Keep from the South-East’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Helmsley Castle: The Keep from the South–East 1801
D05077
Turner Bequest LXXXII 4
Pencil on white wove paper, 256 x 161 mm
Watermark ‘1794’ (trimmed)
Inscribed in pencil ‘2’ top right
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 3 verso opposite (D40796). For Helmsley Castle see under folio 3 recto (D05076).
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in pencil ‘Yorkshire’; and in a twentieth–century hand ‘Helmsley Castle | p 4 sch[edule] 147’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Helmsley Castle: The Keep from the South–East 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-helmsley-castle-the-keep-from-the-south-east-r1178645, accessed 17 July 2024.