Joseph Mallord William Turner

Rocks, with Part of the Ruins of ?Fast Castle Above

1801

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In Tate Britain

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Dunbar Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 115 x 164 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D02728
Turner Bequest LIV 74 a

Catalogue entry

Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the view is continued on folio 75 recto opposite (D02729). Drawings apparently showing Fast Castle, the first on the road to Edinburgh inside the Scottish border, are on folios 72 verso–79 recto (D02724–D02737).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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