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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Edinburgh, 1818, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of the Firth of Forth Between Port Edgar and Blackness 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of the Firth of Forth Between Port Edgar and Blackness’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
Views of the Firth of Forth Between Port Edgar and Blackness 1818
D13533
Turner Bequest CLXVI 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘w[...]’ top left
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 43’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page shows views along the Firth of Forth continued from folio 42 verso (D13532). At the top of the page is a view of the island of Inchgarvie from the west, the sketch in the middle of the page shows a view east towards Blackness Castle, and the sketch at the bottom may be of Rosyth Castle. (See folio 42 verso for more information).
Turner returned to this spot in 1822 and made a sketch that closely matches the drawing in the middle of this page (King’s Visit to Edinburgh sketchbook, Tate D17586; Turner Bequest CC 47a).

Thomas Ardill
September 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Views of the Firth of Forth Between Port Edgar and Blackness 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, 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-views-of-the-firth-of-forth-between-port-edgar-and-blackness-r1132078, accessed 23 April 2024.