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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Linlithgow: The Church and Palace from the South, with the Loch in the Foreground 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Linlithgow: The Church and Palace from the South, with the Loch in the Foreground’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Linlithgow: The Church and Palace from the South, with the Loch in the Foreground 1801
D02936
Turner Bequest LVI 9a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 10 recto opposite (D02937). The fifteenth-century royal palace, in effect a large fortified manor house, at Linlithgow, and its imposing church of St Michael’s close by, form an impressive group of which Turner made several sketches. In 1821 he was to make a finished watercolour view of the palace (Manchester Art Gallery),1 engraved in 1822 for Walter Scott’s Provincial Antiquities of Scotland (Tate impressions: T04498, T06065).
See also folios 10 verso–11 recto, 13 verso–14 recto, 15 recto, 16 verso–17 recto, 18 verso, 19 verso–20 recto, 20 verso–21 recto, 21 verso–22 recto (D02938–D02939, D02942–D02944, D02946–D02947, D02949, D02951–D02954, D41240, D02955).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.426 no.1068.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Linlithgow: The Church and Palace from the South, with the Loch 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-linlithgow-the-church-and-palace-from-the-south-with-the-r1179128, accessed 30 June 2024.