Joseph Mallord William Turner

Edinburgh, from near Stockbridge

1818

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Scotch Antiquities Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 112 × 186 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D13647
Turner Bequest CLXVII 37

Catalogue entry

This page continues a view from folio 38 verso (D13646; CLXVII 36a) of Edinburgh from Stockbridge in the north-west of the city. On the opposite page is the eastern half of the city from Calton Hill (with Arthur’s Seat behind it) to St Giles’s Cathedral with part of the New Town in front. The present page is dominated by the outline of Edinburgh Castle in front of which the carefully planned Georgian blocks of Edinburgh’s New Town can clearly be discerned.
There is light foxing across the page.

Thomas Ardill
March 2008

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