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 Views of the Firth of Forth 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of the Firth of Forth’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Recto:
Views of the Firth of Forth 1818
D13521
Turner Bequest CLXVI 37
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W[...]’ top, ‘I Garvie’ top right, ‘Sea Road’ upper middle right
Stamped in black CLXVI 37 bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across this page are five sketches of the coastline of the Firth of Forth, all taken from around Hopetoun and Blackness. The top two sketches look east along the southern bank of the Forth and were perhaps taken from Blackness Castle. While the top sketch has not been precisely identified, the sketch below (which continues at the left to folio 36 verso; D13520) looks towards the island of ‘I[nch] Garvie’. Across the middle of the page and on folio 36 verso is a view west towards Blackness Castle, which sits on a promontory into the Forth. Beneath this is a slight sketch of the bank of the Forth. Finally there is another view of Blackness Castle from further away to the east. In the foreground at the left several figures stand on a bridge or parapet near the water.

Thomas Ardill
December 2007

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Views of the Firth of Forth 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-views-of-the-firth-of-forth-r1132066, accessed 26 April 2024.