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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Scotch Lakes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View across the Solway Firth 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View across the Solway Firth’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 181 Verso:
View across the Solway Firth 1801
D03265
Turner Bequest LVI 179a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘mott | 97’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 182 recto opposite (D03266; Turner Bequest LVI 180). Other views of Solway Moss occur in the Smaller Fonthill sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XLVIII, now largely dispersed); see the ‘Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797–1807’ section of this catalogue, where they are listed in the Smaller Fonthill book’s Introduction: no.49 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford);1 and no.50 (Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1907.16).
For other drawings featuring Solway Moss see folios 178 verso–179 recto and 183 verso–184 recto (D03259–D03260, D03269–D03270; Turner Bequest LVI 176a–177, 181a–182).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Luke Herrmann, Ruskin and Turner: A Study of Ruskin as a Collector of Turner, Based on his Gifts to the University of Oxford; Incorporating a Catalogue Raisonné of the Turner Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, London 1968, p.90 no.67, pl.XLII f; see also Finberg 1909, I, p.123.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View across the Solway Firth 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-view-across-the-solway-firth-r1179461, accessed 30 June 2024.