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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Continuation of a View of Edinburgh from the Village of Dean 1822

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Continuation of a View of Edinburgh from the Village of Dean’ 1822
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Continuation of a View of Edinburgh from the Village of Dean 1822
D17568
Turner Bequest CC 38
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘38’ (very faint) bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CC 38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the left of the page is the continuation of a drawing of Edinburgh from Dean’s Village on folio 37 verso (D17567), with Edinburgh Castle. Separated from this sketch with a box around it is a rather slight sketch of a multi-arched bridge. This is likely to be another view towards Edinburgh from the Water of Leith (see the inside front cover of this sketchbook; D40687 for further references). The bridge therefore crosses the river and the faint square shape above is probably Edinburgh Castle, perhaps with St George’s Church to its left. The picture is framed by a tree at the right, in a typically Claudian manner; an approach that Turner adopted in other views of Edinburgh from the Water of Leith (Tate D13690; Turner Bequest CLXVII 59).

Thomas Ardill
September 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Continuation of a View of Edinburgh from the Village of Dean 1822 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-continuation-of-a-view-of-edinburgh-from-the-village-of-dean-r1132909, accessed 25 April 2024.