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 The Gatehouse, Roslin Castle 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Gatehouse, Roslin Castle’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
The Gatehouse, Roslin Castle 1818
D13571
Turner Bequest CLXVI 63
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 63’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The ruinous gatehouse and north range of Roslin Castle – identifiable from the shape of the fragments and the remains of a bartizan turret – is seen from the approach to the north-east. Between the ruins can be seen part of the more intact East Range to which habitable dwellings were added in the 1770s. A view of the same ruins from the side are on folio 17 (D13481) of this sketchbook.

Thomas Ardill
February 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Gatehouse, Roslin Castle 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-the-gatehouse-roslin-castle-r1132116, accessed 20 September 2024.