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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner North Berwick Law and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West, with Figures and Boats in the Foreground 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘North Berwick Law and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West, with Figures and Boats in the Foreground’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
North Berwick Law and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West, with Figures and Boats in the Foreground 1801
D02701
Turner Bequest LIV 60a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 61 recto opposite (D02702). Other views of the Bass Rock are on folios 50 verso–51 recto, 58 verso–59 recto and 59 verso–60 recto (D02681–D02682, D02697–D02700).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘North Berwick Law and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West, with Figures and Boats in the 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-north-berwick-law-and-the-bass-rock-seen-from-the-west-with-r1178887, accessed 30 June 2024.