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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rhymer's Glen, Abbotsford 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rhymer's Glen, Abbotsford’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Rhymer’s Glen, Abbotsford 1834
D26204
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘56’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 56’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is likely to depict Huntly Burn, which flows through Rhymer’s Glen on Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford estate. There is a similar view on folio 55 verso (D26203). See folio 50 verso (D26193) for further information and references.

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Rhymer’s Glen, Abbotsford 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2011, 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-rhymers-glen-abbotsford-r1136132, accessed 25 April 2024.