Scarborough Castle
possibly Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1880 (inscription states in possession of J Ruskin at Brantwood)
Materials
Pencil on paper
Measurements
250 x 400 mm
Place of origin
Scarborough
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1290254
Summary
Pencil drawing, Scarborough Castle, Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851) . Inscription on front in bottom right corner in Ruskin’s hand reads ‘Scarborough. J.M.W.T. / Fine early time J Ruskin / Brantwood 1880’. Exhibited at the Fine Art Society in 1878, catalogue no. 81, and possibly from the much-dismembered Smaller Fonthill sketchbook, the remainder of which is in the Tate (TB XLVIII). The drawing fits the description that Ruskin wrote for the 1878 catalogue entry: 'Observe the perfect, quiet, fearless decision, with no hurry, and no showing off, perspective watched in every line, then the perfect setting of the beds of the rock up the angle of it, when they are vital to it, up to the highest piece of Castle. And see the love of walls and rocks , and many forms of them gathered well together, as fixed in him already as it was to his death....' (Cook and Wedderburn (eds.), Works of John Ruskin, XIII, pp.463-4).
Provenance
Inscription states in possession of John Ruskin at Brantwood, Coniston, Lake District,1880
Makers and roles
possibly Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851), artist John Ruskin (1819-1900). , artist