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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner Roslin Castle and Church 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Roslin Castle and Church’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Verso:
Roslin Castle and Church 1818
D13717
Turner Bequest CLXVII 72a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘M[...]m’ upper right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted is a slight sketch of Roslin Castle from the north-west. The castle itself is shown in outline and silhouette only, though the shapes of the ruined gatehouse at the left and keep at the right can be made out. The castle sits at the edge of the north bank of the North Esk River and both banks are shown in the sketch, covered in rapidly sketched foliage. A lightly sketched tree trunk at the left of the picture is inscribed illegibly. At the bottom right of the page is a tiny carefully drawn study of part of Roslin Chapel. There is another view of the castle from the north-west on folio 81 of this sketchbook (D13718; CLXVII 73), and two in the Edinburgh, 1818 sketchbook (Tate D13502 and D13564; Turner Bequest CLXVI 27a and 59a).

Thomas Ardill
March 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Roslin Castle and Church 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-roslin-castle-and-church-r1132274, accessed 27 April 2024.