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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle Ruins 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle Ruins’ 1801 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
April 2015Inside Front Cover:
Castle Ruins 1801
D40778
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 164 mm
Stamped in ink ‘J M W T.’ top centre
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards top centre
Inscribed by later hands in ink and pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed in pencil ‘LIV’ towards top left
Stamped in black ‘LIV’ towards top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s slight unidentified sketch here was not noted by Finberg.1
This paste-down bears the endorsement of the Executors of the Turner Bequest, Charles Turner, Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight, in ink ‘No 227 | 88 Leaves some in Color in Pencl [sic] & Chalk | C Turner’ and in pencil ‘C.L.E.’ and ‘JPK’ at the top left. Below this it is also inscribed by the British Museum curator Arthur Magyer Hind in pencil: ‘Binding repaired March 31, 1932 | AMH’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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See Finberg 1909, I, p.136.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Castle Ruins 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-castle-ruins-r1178799, accessed 17 July 2024.