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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Edinburgh, 1818, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inchgarvie and North Queensferry 1818

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inchgarvie and North Queensferry’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Inchgarvie and North Queensferry 1818
D13457
Turner Bequest CLXVI 5
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 4 verso (D13458) are two views of the port of North Queensferry on the north bank of the Firth of Forth with the nearby fortified island of Inchgarvie (4 verso). The port is identifiable by the Tower House and Signal House (Light House) in the lower sketch.

Thomas Ardill
January 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Inchgarvie and North Queensferry 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-inchgarvie-and-north-queensferry-r1132002, accessed 24 April 2024.