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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Island, Perhaps Inchkeith 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Island, Perhaps Inchkeith’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Verso:
Island, Perhaps Inchkeith 1831
D25677
Turner Bequest CCLXV 20a
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this sketch of a rock or island may continue from the sketch on folio 21 (D25678) in which case it is probably Inchkeith off the coast of Leith near Edinburgh, depicted more clearly on folio 22 (D25680).

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Island, Perhaps Inchkeith 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-island-perhaps-inchkeith-r1134041, accessed 23 October 2025.