J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Traquair House, Innerleithen 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Traquair House, Innerleithen’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
Traquair House, Innerleithen 1834
D26125
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 16a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Traquair House near Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders is seen here from the north-east.1 This is one of two studies of the house, with the other, on folio 17 verso (D26127), depicting the opposite view. Although the sketch is fairly quick, it is accurate and Turner has included all of the windows and chimneys, as well as the two flanking pavilions. He has also drawn a separate study of the gable and chimney of the northern wing to the top right of the main sketch. Beneath is a separate sketch of the distant hills behind the house.
For more information about the context of Turner visit to Traquair, see folio 17 verso.

Thomas Ardill
December 2010

1
Identified by David Wallace-Hadrill, ‘1834 | 1831’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Traquair House, Innerleithen 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-traquair-house-innerleithen-r1136053, accessed 18 May 2024.