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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of the Firth of Forth from Corstorphine, with St Bernard's Well in the Centre Foreground 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of the Firth of Forth from Corstorphine, with St Bernard's Well in the Centre Foreground’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Distant View of the Firth of Forth from Corstorphine, with St Bernard’s Well in the Centre Foreground 1801
D02840
Turner Bequest LV 21a
Pencil on white wove paper, 195 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 22 recto opposite (D02841). For St Bernard’s Well and Alexander Naismith’s pump house, see folios 19 verso–20 recto and 51 verso–52 recto (D02836–D02837, D02885–D02886).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant View of the Firth of Forth from Corstorphine, with St Bernard’s Well in the Centre Foreground 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-the-firth-of-forth-from-corstorphine-with-st-r1179030, accessed 30 June 2024.