'Inscribed front cover: Edinburgh, Bass Rock', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Inscribed front cover: Edinburgh, Bass Rock

From Bass Rock and Edinburgh Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CLXV

Date 1818

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 105 x 165 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D40682

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Front Cover:

Inscribed front cover: Edinburgh, Bass Rock 1818

D40682

Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 165 mm
Inscribed by Turner in black ink ‘Edinburgh | Bass Rock’ top centre
In black ink in ?another hand ‘S58’ bottom centre descending vertically
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest stamp, right centre descending diagonally vertically
Stamped in black ‘CLXV’ bottom right descending vertically

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Leather-bound sketchbook cover with stamped design, inscribed by Turner in black ink ‘Edinburgh | Bass Rock.’

Thomas Ardill
August 2007

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

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1810s

Bass Rock and Edinburgh Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest