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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Edinburgh, 1818, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Firth of Forth Looking Towards ?Blackness Castle 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Firth of Forth Looking Towards ?Blackness Castle’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Firth of Forth Looking Towards ?Blackness Castle 1818
D13523
Turner Bequest CLXVI 38
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 37 verso (D13522), this view looks across the Firth of Forth from the southern bank towards the distant Grampians. In the foreground beneath the bank from which the sketch was taken is the roof of a cottage on the shoreline of the river. At the left of the drawing on folio 37 verso may be Blackness Castle.

Thomas Ardill
December 2007

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Firth of Forth Looking Towards ?Blackness Castle 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-firth-of-forth-looking-towards-blackness-castle-r1132068, accessed 18 April 2024.