Joseph Mallord William Turner

Edinburgh from the West, with the Water of Leith in the Foreground

1801

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Edinburgh Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 195 × 127 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D02830
Turner Bequest LV 15 a

Catalogue entry

The subject is continued on folio 16 recto opposite (D02831). This view was used as the basis of a finished watercolour that Turner showed at the Royal Academy in 1802, Edinburgh New Town, Castle, &c; from the Water of Leith;1 it can probably be identified with the cut-down drawing now in the Museums Sheffield collection.2

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.339 no.347, as untraced.
2
Ibid., p.489 no.347a, reproduced.

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