Joseph Mallord William Turner

This double-page sketch (continued on folio 54; D13555) shows the same view along the Firth of Forth as folios 47 verso–48 (D13542–D13543) where a group of people stand on a beach by a domed pavilion and a twin-gabled building. Finberg suggested the scene was on the ‘north side of the Firth of Forth’,1 and David Wallace-Hadrill proposed that this might be North Queensferry, in which case the view is looking east.2 There are views of the Firth of Forth throughout this sketchbook covering the area around Dunbar and North Berwick, and between Leith and Blackness Castle on the southern banks, and around North Queensferry and Rosyth Castle on the Fife banks (see Edinburgh, 1818 sketchbook Introduction).