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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle and Cliffs at North Queensferry 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle and Cliffs at North Queensferry’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Castle and Cliffs at North Queensferry 1801
D02934
Turner Bequest LVI 8
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘8’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 8’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. The castle at north Queensferry, a fifteenth-century tower house, is now surrounded by Rosyth Docks; it was largely a ruin in Turner’s time. See under folio 3 recto (D02929).
Verso:
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Queensferry’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Castle and Cliffs at North Queensferry 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-castle-and-cliffs-at-north-queensferry-r1179126, accessed 30 June 2024.