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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Edinburgh 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Edinburgh’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Verso:
?The Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Edinburgh 1834
D26433
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 90a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rather than the Old College of Edinburgh University, as Finberg suggested,1 David Wallace-Hadrill has identified this building as the headquarters of the Bank of Scotland on the Mound in Edinburgh.2 The view is from Bank Street to the south-east. Beneath is a separate study of part of the building. There are further sketches of the building on the inside back cover of this sketchbook (D41048).

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.867. The dome of the Robert Adam and William Henry Playfair’s building was not added until 1887.
2
David Wallace-Hadrill, [CCLXIX Checklist], [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, unpaginated.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘?The Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Edinburgh 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2010, 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-bank-of-scotland-headquarters-edinburgh-r1136363, accessed 20 September 2024.