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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocks at Dunbar, ?with the Bass Rock in the Right Distance 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocks at Dunbar, ?with the Bass Rock in the Right Distance’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Recto:
Rocks at Dunbar, ?with the Bass Rock in the Right Distance 1801
D02719
Turner Bequest LIV 70
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘70’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LIV 70’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is probably the continuation of the drawing on folio 69 verso opposite (D02718).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rocks at Dunbar, ?with the Bass Rock in the Right Distance 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-rocks-at-dunbar-with-the-bass-rock-in-the-right-distance-r1178905, accessed 23 April 2024.