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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Linlithgow: St Michael's Church from the North-East 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Linlithgow: St Michael's Church from the North-East’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Linlithgow: St Michael’s Church from the North-East 1801
D02943
Turner Bequest LVI 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘14’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 14’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the pages turned horizontally, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 13 verso opposite (D02942).
Verso:
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Church Linlithgo where James | is said to have seen the Appration [sic] of | an Old man.’ Turner’s note probably refers to the story that King James IV of Scotland saw a ghost in the church, warning him not to go to Flodden where, on 9 September 1513, he was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Linlithgow: St Michael’s Church from the North-East 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-linlithgow-st-michaels-church-from-the-north-east-r1179135, accessed 19 April 2024.