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 Blackness Castle 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blackness Castle’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Blackness Castle 1818
D13684
Turner Bequest CLXVII 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed in blue ‘56’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXVII 56’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 58 verso (D13683; CLXVII 55a), this is a double-page sketch of Blackness Castle from the west. On the current page is the village of Blackness, looking towards the Firth of Forth beyond.

Thomas Ardill
March 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Blackness Castle 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-blackness-castle-r1132231, accessed 26 April 2024.