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Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
Crichton Castle, 1818
Watercolor and pencil on paper; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (16.1 x 24 cm)
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund, 1978, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library and the 50th anniversary of the Association of Fellows
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Crichton Castle, begun in the late fourteenth century, inspired the setting of Sir Walter Scott's poem Marmion (1808). This watercolor is one of ten that Turner produced to illustrate Scott's Provincial Antiquities of Scotland (1818–26); the watercolor was published as an engraving in 1819. Turner executed two preparatory studies for this watercolor, one of which is displayed in the exhibition.
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