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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Queensferry, Looking across the Firth of Forth to North Queensferry 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Queensferry, Looking across the Firth of Forth to North Queensferry’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
Queensferry, Looking across the Firth of Forth to North Queensferry 1801
D02940
Turner Bequest LVI 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Partial watermark ‘C Wi | 17’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘12’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 12’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. See under folio 3 recto (D02929).
Verso:
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Queensferry’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Queensferry, Looking across the Firth of Forth to North Queensferry 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-queensferry-looking-across-the-firth-of-forth-to-north-r1179132, accessed 30 June 2024.