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 Edinburgh, from Village of Dean 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Edinburgh, from Village of Dean’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Recto:
Edinburgh, from Village of Dean 1818
D13738
Turner Bequest CLXVII 83
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘83’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXVII 83’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Village of Dean provides the semi-rural foreground to this view of Edinburgh from the west. As in folio 70 verso (D13746; CLXVII 87a), St George’s Church and Edinburgh Castle form the focal point of the picture, this time with Arthur’s Seat clearly visible in the background. More of the city, especially the New Town, is shown in the following sketch across two pages of the sketchbook (folios 71 verso–72; D13739–D13740; CLXVII 83a–84).

Thomas Ardill
March 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Edinburgh, from Village of Dean 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-edinburgh-from-village-of-dean-r1132255, accessed 26 April 2024.