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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Port Glasgow Seen across the Clyde from Dumbarton; Dumbarton Harbour and Rock from the East 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Port Glasgow Seen across the Clyde from Dumbarton; Dumbarton Harbour and Rock from the East’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Port Glasgow Seen across the Clyde from Dumbarton; Dumbarton Harbour and Rock from the East 1801
D02975
Turner Bequest LVI 32a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Partial watermark ‘mott | 97’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Port Glasgow’ top right and ‘Dumbarton’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards top right and below right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The two sketches were made with the page turned horizontally. See under folio 25 verso (D02961).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Port Glasgow Seen across the Clyde from Dumbarton; Dumbarton Harbour and Rock from the East 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-port-glasgow-seen-across-the-clyde-from-dumbarton-dumbarton-r1179168, accessed 30 June 2024.