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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of the Ruins of Dunbar Castle on Rocks above the Sea 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of the Ruins of Dunbar Castle on Rocks above the Sea’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Verso:
Part of the Ruins of Dunbar Castle on Rocks above the Sea 1801
D02714
Turner Bequest LIV 67a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is one of a series of drawings of Dunbar between folios 61 verso and 70 verso (D02703–D02720).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Part of the Ruins of Dunbar Castle on Rocks above the Sea 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-part-of-the-ruins-of-dunbar-castle-on-rocks-above-the-sea-r1178900, accessed 25 April 2024.