Joseph Mallord William Turner

Dunbar

1818

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Edinburgh, 1818, Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 90 x 112 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D13497
Turner Bequest CLXVI 25

Catalogue entry

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

1

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

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