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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Dunbar Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocks, ?near Fast Castle 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocks, ?near Fast Castle’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Verso:
Rocks, ?near Fast Castle 1801
D02724
Turner Bequest LIV 72a
Pencil with scraping-out on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The location of this subject, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is conjectured on the basis of the drawings on the following pages, folios 73 recto–79 recto (D02725–D02737), all of which seem to show Fast Castle, the first Turner encountered on the coastal road to Edinburgh within the Scottish border, between St Abb’s Head and Cockburnspath. It does not seem to be the case that the drawing opposite (D02725) is a continuation of this one.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rocks, ?near Fast Castle 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-near-fast-castle-r1178910, accessed 25 April 2024.