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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Roslin Castle; and the Continuation of a Sketch of a Town 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Roslin Castle; and the Continuation of a Sketch of a Town’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Two Sketches of Roslin Castle; and the Continuation of a Sketch of a Town 1818
D13481
Turner Bequest CLXVI 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘castle’ centre
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are two sketches of Roslin ‘Castle’ on this page. The lower sketch is of the ruins from the south-east with the ruinous entrance way accessible via a bridge over a ditch. The upper sketch may shows the bridge again, but from the east. There is a comparable view in the Scotch Antiquities sketchbook (Tate D13713; Turner Bequest CLXVII 70a). These studies were made in preparation for a commission for the Provincial Antiquities publication, Roslin Castle, circa 1820 (Indianapolis Museum of Art).1
At the left of the page is the continuation of a sketch of a landscape with a town from folio 16 verso (D13481).

Thomas Ardill
November 2007

1
Ibid., no.1065.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Two Sketches of Roslin Castle; and the Continuation of a Sketch of a Town 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2007, 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-two-sketches-of-roslin-castle-and-the-continuation-of-a-r1132026, accessed 19 April 2024.