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 Tantallon Castle and Bass Rock 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tantallon Castle and Bass Rock’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto:
Tantallon Castle and Bass Rock 1818
D13509
Turner Bequest CLXVI 31
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 31’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch looking out to sea at the Bass Rock from the cliffs near Tantallon Castle was drawn with the sketchbook inverted and continues on the opposite page (folio 30 verso; D13508). This page, framed on the left by the cliff edge of Gin Head, shows the Bass Rock about a mile off the East Lothian Coast.

Thomas Ardill
December 2007

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Tantallon Castle and 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-tantallon-castle-and-bass-rock-r1132054, accessed 10 May 2024.