Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketches: Jugs, Carts, a Figure and a Landscape (possibly Dalkeith); and Inscriptions

1818

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Edinburgh, 1818, Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 90 x 112 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D40936

Catalogue entry

Typical of Turner’s sketchbook practice on this tour of Scotland, the inside covers of the Edinburgh sketchbook have been used for quick observations and visual and written notes. The sketches and notes here were perhaps made at an inn during Turner’s journey or stay in Edinburgh as they relate to food and deliveries. There are two carts, one at the top of the page with the inscription, ‘Cart of fish and coal’, and another with two women aboard at the left. There are two rows of jugs and ‘milk’ pales which may have been used to decant a delivery of milk from the cart. Similar objects are displayed in the foreground of the watercolours, Edinburgh High Street, circa 1818 (Yale Center for British Art),1 and Heriot’s Hospital, circa 1819 (National Gallery of Scotland),2 and may have derived from the objects observed in this sketch.
Another inscription refers to ‘Books’ with a ‘Red marble[d] edge’. At the bottom left of the page is a figure who is bent forward slightly as if pulling a cart, with an inscription perhaps referring to a ‘Blue’ item of clothing. Finally, a faint sketch at the bottom right, drawn with the page turned to the right, shows a landscape and may be inscribed ‘Dalkeith’, a town that Turner visited and sketched on this tour, and that was chosen as a subject for Scott’s Provincial Antiquities publication (though not illustrated by Turner).

Thomas Ardill
January 2008

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.426 no.1061.
2
Ibid., no.1064.

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