Norham Castle on the Tweed
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775 - 1851
Summary
This is a landscape with ruins of a castle on a hill in the centre of the middle ground with a river running left to right at the base and converging to form one river, which leads into the foreground centre. There are masted boats with sails in centre middle ground. There are cattle drinking at the right of centre foreground from the stream. Two figures and a small boat are in the foreground to the right with a building behind them and a large vertical wheel to the side.
Object Name
Norham Castle on the Tweed
Creators Name
Date Created
1825 (circa)
Dimensions
print: 19.3cm x 25.5cm
support: 25cm x 32.2cm
accession number
1982.104
Collection Group
Support
paper
Medium
ink (brown)
