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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Edinburgh Castle from the West, with Trees and Houses in the Foreground 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Edinburgh Castle from the West, with Trees and Houses in the Foreground’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Distant View of Edinburgh Castle from the West, with Trees and Houses in the Foreground 1801
D02854
Turner Bequest LV 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 127 x 195 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the pages turned horizontally, the subject is continued on folio 31 recto opposite (D02855). It is a slight sketch which, like several others in this book, seems to have been made with a view to fixing a grand composition in Turner’s mind rather than recording specific details.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant View of Edinburgh Castle from the West, with Trees and Houses 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-distant-view-of-edinburgh-castle-from-the-west-with-trees-r1179044, accessed 30 June 2024.