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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Linlithgow Palace: The East Front from the North 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Linlithgow Palace: The East Front from the North’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Linlithgow Palace: The East Front from the North 1801
D02947
Turner Bequest LVI 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘C Wi | 17’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 16 verso opposite (D02946).
Verso:
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Linlithgow Palace’; ‘built by Robert IInd’ possibly added in another hand.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Linlithgow Palace: The East Front from the North 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-palace-the-east-front-from-the-north-r1179139, accessed 21 November 2024.