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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Roslin Castle, with a Distant View of the Chapel to the Right 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Roslin Castle, with a Distant View of the Chapel to the Right’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Recto:
Roslin Castle, with a Distant View of the Chapel to the Right 1801
D02918
Turner Bequest LV 72
Pencil on white wove paper, 127 x 195 mm
Stamped in black ‘LV – 72’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The placing of this sketch on the page, turned horizontally, echoes that of several studies in this sketchbook, where a building on a height is seen above wooded banks on the opposite page, for example, folios 17 verso–18 recto and 62 verso–63 recto (D02833–D02834, D02903–D02904). So by implication the wooded glen below the castle at Roslin occupies the blank page opposite (the verso of folio 71; D02917).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Roslin Castle, with a Distant View of the Chapel to the Right 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-roslin-castle-with-a-distant-view-of-the-chapel-to-the-right-r1179108, accessed 18 July 2024.