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 Rocks off the Coast of Dunbar; the Bass Rock 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocks off the Coast of Dunbar; the Bass Rock’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
Rocks off the Coast of Dunbar; the Bass Rock 1818
D13499
Turner Bequest CLXVI 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Rock Dunbar’ bottom and ‘grey’ right
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 26’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 25 verso (D13498) at the bottom of this page is a sketch of the rocks off the coast of Dunbar. At the top of the page is another sketch taken from a similar position of the Bass Rock with what may be the Isle of May to the right. This composition is framed by a tree in the foreground at the left. A line down the centre of the drawing suggests that Turner may have initially planned to divide the space into two small drawings as on the previous page.

Thomas Ardill
December 2007

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Rocks off the Coast of Dunbar; the Bass Rock 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-rocks-off-the-coast-of-dunbar-the-bass-rock-r1132044, accessed 23 April 2024.