J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Scotch Antiquities Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Edinburgh, from the Calton Hill; and Figures on Calton Hill 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Edinburgh, from the Calton Hill; and Figures on Calton Hill’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
Edinburgh, from the Calton Hill; and Figures on Calton Hill 1818
D13654
Turner Bequest CLXVII 41
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed in blue ink ‘41’ at the top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 42 verso (D13653; CLXVII 4a) is a sketch of the top of Calton Hill with (on 42 verso) figures at work and play. At the right of the present page is a continuation of the view of Edinburgh from Calton Hill from folio 42 (D13652; CLXVII 40). Turner must have peeled back that page in order to continue his sketch here and show more of Edinburgh’s New Town.
There is a blue ink stain (matching the colour of Finberg’s blue ink inscription) at the centre top of the page.

Thomas Ardill
March 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Edinburgh, from the Calton Hill; and Figures on Calton Hill 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-edinburgh-from-the-calton-hill-and-figures-on-calton-hill-r1132202, accessed 26 April 2024.