Joseph Mallord William Turner

Trees and a Bridge, ?below Edinburgh Castle

1801

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Edinburgh Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 127 × 195 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D02834
Turner Bequest LV 18

Catalogue entry

The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. Although apparently only tenuously linked, this and the view of Edinburgh Castle on folio 17 verso opposite (D02833) are probably intended to be read one below the other, with the trees and bridge seen below the Rock. A similar two-tiered view occurs on folios 20 verso–21 recto (D02838–D02839).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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