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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking up at Edinburgh Castle, from the West 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking up at Edinburgh Castle, from the West’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Looking up at Edinburgh Castle, from the West 1801
D02892
Turner Bequest LV 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 195 x 127 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘LV – 56’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 55 verso opposite (D02891).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking up at Edinburgh Castle, from the West 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-looking-up-at-edinburgh-castle-from-the-west-r1179082, accessed 26 April 2024.