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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Ruins of Bothwell Castle Seen beyond Trees, from the South 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Ruins of Bothwell Castle Seen beyond Trees, from the South’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 169 Verso:
The Ruins of Bothwell Castle Seen beyond Trees, from the South 1801
D03241
Turner Bequest LVI 167a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bothwell Castle’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 170 recto opposite (D03242; Turner Bequest LVI 168). For other drawings of Bothwell Castle see folios 165 verso–166 recto and 168 verso–169 recto (D03233–D03234, D03239–D03240; Turner Bequest LVI 163a–164, 166a–167).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Ruins of Bothwell Castle Seen beyond Trees, from the South 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-the-ruins-of-bothwell-castle-seen-beyond-trees-from-the-r1179437, accessed 01 July 2024.