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 Lauriston Castle and the Firth of Forth; and ?Roslin Chapel 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lauriston Castle and the Firth of Forth; and ?Roslin Chapel’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Recto:
Lauriston Castle and the Firth of Forth; and ?Roslin Chapel 1818
D13569
Turner Bequest CLXVI 62
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 62’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 61 verso (D13568) is a view of Lauriston Castle and the Firth of Forth with Inchkeith island. At the bottom right of the present page, drawn with the book inverted is a tiny sketch of a building that may be Roslin Chapel, which can be seen in sketches of Roslin Castle in this sketchbook (folio 40; D13527) and the inside of which Turner sketched (folio 53; D13561).

Thomas Ardill
January 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Lauriston Castle and the Firth of Forth; and ?Roslin Chapel 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2008, 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-lauriston-castle-and-the-firth-of-forth-and-roslin-chapel-r1132114, accessed 25 April 2024.