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 Port Edgar; Sailing Boats 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Port Edgar; Sailing Boats’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Recto:
Port Edgar; Sailing Boats 1818
D13539
Turner Bequest CLXVI 46
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Port Edgar’ centre
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 46’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 45 verso (D13538) is a sketch of Port Edgar, Queensferry, and a view west along the Firth of Forth, the north bank of which is shown on this page. There are sketches of sailing boats at the top of the page and continuing on 45 verso with the book inverted. (For further information see folio 45 verso).

Thomas Ardill
December 2007

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Port Edgar; Sailing Boats 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-port-edgar-sailing-boats-r1132084, accessed 26 April 2024.