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 West 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West 1801
D02700
Turner Bequest LIV 60
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘60’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LIV 60’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 59 verso opposite (D02699).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West 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-west-r1178886, accessed 30 June 2024.