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 Dunbar 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dunbar’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Dunbar 1818
D13489
Turner Bequest CLXVI 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very faint sketch is a continuation of the drawing of Dunbar Castle on the previous page (see folio 20 verso; D13488), showing here the rocky promontory on which the castle stands descending into the sea. The sketch is one of many views of the town made in preparation for his illustration for Scott’s Provincial Antiquities: Dunbar, circa 1823 (watercolour, private collection).1

Thomas Ardill
December 2007

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.426 no.1066.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Dunbar 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 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-dunbar-r1132034, accessed 20 September 2024.