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

This third drawing in the current sketchbook of the Village of Dean looks down towards the Water of Leith, with a crossing in the bottom right corner of the page across to the far tree-covered bank and up to Edinburgh’s New Town. Identifiable features in the sketch are the neat rows of Georgian Houses of the New Town, with the dome of St George’s Church rising above them, and in the distance at the top-right corner of the present page is Nelson’s Monument on Calton Hill at the other side of the city. There is also a church spire at the far left of the page which may be the Church of St Andrew’s (now St Andrew’s and St George’s).

The sketch continues on to folio 72 (D13740; CLXVII 84) where there are more houses either side of the river. There are sketches of similar views on folios 70 verso, 71, and 72 verso–73 (D13746, D13738, and D13741–D13442; CLXVII 87a, 83, 84a–85).

The pink mark at the bottom left has transferred from folio 71 opposite.