Joseph Mallord William Turner

Rocks off the Coast of Dunbar

1818

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Bass Rock and Edinburgh Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 99 × 159 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D13415
Turner Bequest CLXV 52

Catalogue entry

Sandwiched between drawings of Edinburgh in this sketchbook, this page has three sketches of rocks off the coast of Dunbar. Judging by the subject of the sketch on the following page (folio 55; D13417; CLXV 53), the distinctive double tower structure on the middle and bottom sketch, and the cylindrical shape on the top sketch, these may be the ruins of Dunbar Castle, dozens of views of which appear earlier in this sketchbook. The rocks at the bottom are inscribed ‘R’ which probably stands for their red colour.

Thomas Ardill
November 2007

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