'Ashestiel From Across the River Tweed', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Ashestiel From Across the River Tweed

From Abbotsford Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CCLXVII

Date c.1831

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 113 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D26087

Turner Bequest CCLXVII 89 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 87 Verso:

Ashestiel From Across the River Tweed 1831

D26087
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 89a

Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

With the sketchbook inverted is the continuation of a sketch of Ashestiel from the opposite bank of the River Tweed (see folio 88; D26089; CCLXVII 90). On the present page can be seen the wooded banks of the Tweed with Ashestiel Farm and Middle Hill.

See folio 88 for more information and references to other sketches of Ashestiel.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.