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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tantallon Castle from the West 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tantallon Castle from the West’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso:
Tantallon Castle from the West 1801
D02693
Turner Bequest LIV 56a
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 57 recto opposite (D02694). This is one of a series of views of Tantallon continuing to folio 60 recto (D02700). The castle was built in the mid-fourteenth century by the Douglas Earls of Angus; like its neighbour a little farther along the Berwickshire coast, Dunbar and Dirleton (see folios 51 recto–52 verso; D02682–D02685), it was reduced to ruins by Cromwell’s army in 1651.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Tantallon Castle from the West 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-tantallon-castle-from-the-west-r1178879, accessed 30 June 2024.