Norham Castle, Sunrise ARTISTJoseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851 MEDIUMOil paint on canvas DIMENSIONSSupport: 908 x 1219 mm frame: 1060 x 1370 x 70 mm COLLECTIONTate
Turner first saw Norham, bordering Scotland on the river Tweed in Northumberland, in 1797. He was at the limits of his trip to northern England, when he also visited Buttermere, seen in the painting of nearly fifty years earlier shown nearby. After that first visit he made watercolours showing the ruin at sunrise, and visits in 1801 and 1831 resulted in further views. Here, finally, is one of a series of unfinished, unexhibited paintings reworking his monochrome Liber Studiorum landscape prints. Pure colours rather than contrasting tones express the blazing light as the historic building and landscape merge.
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