Joseph Mallord William Turner

Edinburgh Castle, Looking towards the Half Moon Battery, with the King’s Lodgings on the Right

1822

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
King’s Visit to Edinburgh Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 114 × 187 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D17577
Turner Bequest CC 42 a

Catalogue entry

This sketch within the precincts of Edinburgh Castle, made with the sketchbook inverted, looks south with the Half Moon Battery wall to the left and the Royal Palace straight ahead. The drawing is similar, though more finished and from a slightly different angle, to a sketch on folio 41 verso (D17575). Between the cannon and the flag-pole are a few steps, and it was from here that Turner sketched the view north-east on folio 38 verso (D17569).
This sketch is one of several made in connection to the procession to the castle with the Regalia of Scotland on 22 August 1822 (see folio 36 verso; D17565). On that occasion the King stood on a spot close to where this sketch was made to wave to the crowds assembled below.

Thomas Ardill
September 2008

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