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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the South 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the South’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Verso:
Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the South 1801
D02697
Turner Bequest LIV 58a
Pencil and scraping-out on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject in continued on folio 59 recto opposite (D02698). This is one of a series of views of Tantallon between folios 56 verso and 60 recto (D02693–D02700).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the South 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-tantallon-castle-and-the-bass-rock-seen-from-the-south-r1178883, accessed 30 June 2024.