J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Scotch Antiquities Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Linlithgow Palace and St Michael's Church 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Linlithgow Palace and St Michael's Church’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
Linlithgow Palace and St Michael’s Church 1818
D13669
Turner Bequest CLXVII 48
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner [?] ‘Read in Boundry’
Inscribed in blue ink ‘48’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXVII 48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Linlithgow Palace (left) and St Michael’s church tower (right) are seen in this sketch from the bottom of a steep bank to the south-west. At the top of the bank two figures stand on the slope, and below at the left two more stand, reflected in the water of Linlithgow Loch (as in folio 51; D13671; CLXVII 49). Turner’s inscription refers to the ‘road’ that forms a ‘boundary’ around the castle and church at the top of the bank.
There are two further sketches of the palace and church from the south-west: folio 51, in which Linlithgow Loch is also visible, and folio 52 (D13663; CLXVII 45b), from a high vantage point further to the south from where the town of Linlithgow is also visible.

Thomas Ardill
March 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Linlithgow Palace and St Michael’s Church 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-linlithgow-palace-and-st-michaels-church-r1132214, accessed 16 April 2024.