Graphite and watercolour on paper
Drawings and Watercolours Connected with the Welsh and Marches Tours
Drawings and Watercolours Connected with the Welsh and Marches Tours
Wales and the Marches 1792-4
Wales and the Marches 1792-4
Tate Collection
Works with images
Works on loan
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Landscape Composition with a Ruined Castle on a Cliff
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
boat - non-specific
castle
cliff
figure
military
military
people
rocky
ruins
sea
seascapes and coasts
society
transport: water
wave
<p>This is an exercise in a generalised and idealised kind of landscape, rather than a representation of a particular place. This sort of rugged coastal scene had been a specialism of Phillip James de Loutherbourg, a successful landscape painter of the older generation. A work by him can be seen in room C3.</p><p>Although this is an invented, rather than actual, location Turner uses the same components – jagged rocks, crashing waves, wind-tossed boat – in paintings of particular places in Britain.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
6 July 2019 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
6 July 2019 – 13 October 2019
2019-10-13
2019-07-06
Kunstmuseum (Luzern, Switzerland)
http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
8 November 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
2019-11-08
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
20 February 2020 – 7 September 2020
2020-09-07
2020-02-20
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
15 October 2020 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
2020-10-15
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (Québec, Canada)
http://www.mnba.qc.ca
2019-07-06
The Sea and the Alps: Turner's Quest for the Sublime
Tate partnerships & programmes
6 July 2024 – 15 January 2028
2028-01-15
6 July 2024 – 1 September 2024
2024-09-01
2024-07-06
Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco)
30 September 2024 – 7 May 2025
2025-05-07
2024-09-30
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
21 June 2025 – 5 October 2025
2025-10-05
2025-06-21
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
2024-07-06
Turner's Sublime Legacy
Tate partnerships & programmes
Landscape Composition with a Ruined Castle on a Cliff
support: 214 × 273 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<span class="text17">This is an exercise in a generalised </span><span class="text0">
and idealised kind of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a>, rather </span><span class="text17">than a representation of a particular </span><span class="text0">
place.      This sort of rugged coastal scene </span><span class="text18">had been a      specialism of Phillip James </span><span class="text0">
de Loutherbourg, a      successful landscape painter of the older generation. A work  by him can be      seen in room C3. </span>
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<span class="text0">Although this is an invented, rather than </span><span class="text17">actual, location Turner uses the same components –      jagged rocks, crashing waves, wind-tossed boat – in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a>  of      particular places in Britain. </span><span class="text0">
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