'Dunbar', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Dunbar

From Edinburgh, 1818, Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CLXVI

Date 1818

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 90 x 112 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D13497

Turner Bequest CLXVI 25

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 25 Recto:

Dunbar 1818

D13497
Turner Bequest CLXVI 25

Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 25’

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The drawing of Dunbar Castle on this page is continued from the previous sheet (see folio 24 verso; D13496). The drawing, along with two further versions in the Scotch Antiquities sketchbook, formed the basis of Turner illustration of Dunbar, circa 1823 (watercolour, private collection)1 for the Provincial Antiquities publication. This half of the picture shows the ruins of the castle on a headland that descends into the sea in the foreground and to the right.

Thomas Ardill
December 2007

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.426 no.1066.

Read this catalogue entry in full

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