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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs ?below Helmsley Castle 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs ?below Helmsley Castle’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Cliffs ?below Helmsley Castle 1801
D05085
Turner Bequest LXXXII 11v
Pencil on white wove paper, 256 x 161 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rapid drawing, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is apparently that recorded by Finberg as page ‘12a. Sketch of broken ground’;1 the verso of folio 12 (D05087; Turner Bequest LXXXII 12a) actually bears only an inscription and a pencil mark. The slight outline of a tower appears to relate to the castle drawings on adjacent pages.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

Revised by Matthew Imms
April 2014

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Finberg 1909, I, p.219.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cliffs ?below Helmsley Castle 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, revised by Matthew Imms, April 2014, 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-cliffs-below-helmsley-castle-r1178653, accessed 17 July 2024.