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 View on the Firth of Forth with ?Rosyth Castle 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View on the Firth of Forth with ?Rosyth Castle’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
View on the Firth of Forth with ?Rosyth Castle 1818
D13537
Turner Bequest CLXVI 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 45’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A drawing across two pages, this view along the Firth of Forth may show Rosyth Castle on folio 44 verso (D13536). The drawing on the present page is dominated by high cliffs that tower above a small house or shack.

Thomas Ardill
December 2007

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘View on the Firth of Forth with ?Rosyth Castle 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-view-on-the-firth-of-forth-with-rosyth-castle-r1132082, accessed 19 September 2024.