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 'The Effect of Twylight near Edinburgh' 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘'The Effect of Twylight near Edinburgh'’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
‘The Effect of Twylight near Edinburgh’ 1818
D13563
Turner Bequest CLXVI 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner across the page
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 59’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 58 verso (D13562), this view west along the Firth of Forth contains extensive colour notes by Turner of ‘the Effect of Twylight near Edinburgh’ (see 58 verso for full description). Without watercolour Turner has had to inscribe different parts of the picture with the names of colours. With the sun setting and being replaced by the light of a crescent moon, the sky is lit up red, grey, yellow, brown and blue. The inscriptions are as follows.
‘The Effect of Twylight near Edinburgh’ across the top, ‘Brown’ beneath the first inscription, ‘yellow’ upper right, ‘Grey’ centre, ‘Forth’ lower centre

Thomas Ardill
January 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘‘The Effect of Twylight near Edinburgh’ 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-the-effect-of-twylight-near-edinburgh-r1132108, accessed 21 September 2024.