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 Rosyth Castle 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rosyth Castle’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
Rosyth Castle 1818
D13546
Turner Bequest CLXVI 49a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view of the Firth of Forth on this page continues from folio 50 (D13547) where we look west along the north bank of the river with Rosyth Castle. On the present page is the stretch of the south shore of the Forth between Port Edgar and Blackness Castle.

Thomas Ardill
January 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Rosyth Castle 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-rosyth-castle-r1132091, accessed 18 April 2024.