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after Joseph Mallord William Turner  1775-1851

Joseph Mallord William Turner from The Provincial Antiquities of Scotland, Borthwick Castle 1819

from The Provincial Antiquities of Scotland (T04485-T04501; complete)

Borthwick Castle  1819

Intaglio print on paper
image: 161 x 245 mm
on paper, print

Purchased 1986

T04489
Rawlinson number: 191

In 1818 Turner was commissioned to illustrate Sir Walter Scott's Provincial Antiquities of Scotland. Engravings of Turner's watercolours were to accompany Scott's historical descriptions of Scottish sites. Turner had already visited many of the locations in 1801. However in 1818 he made another visit to gather material for this project.

 

The castle dates from around 1430. It lies alongside the River Gore in the countryside south-east of Edinburgh. Scott celebrated Borthwick Castle as 'one of the most beautiful and entire specimens of castle-architecture in Scotland'.

 

 (From the display caption August 2004)