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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of the Firth of Forth Towards Blackness Castle 1822

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of the Firth of Forth Towards Blackness Castle’ 1822
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
View of the Firth of Forth Towards Blackness Castle 1822
D17586
Turner Bequest CC 47a
Pencil on white wove paper, 187 x 114 mm
Blindstamped with the Turner Bequest stamp upper right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing of a hilly riverbank, drawn with the sketchbook turned to the right, repeats a view along the Firth of Forth towards Blackness Castle that Turner made on his previous visit to Scotland in 1818. The sketch across the middle of two pages in the Edinburgh 1818 sketchbook (Tate D13532–D13533; Turner Bequest CLXVI 42a–43) looks east along the southern shore of the Forth, and the castle is shown in outline just beyond a steeply sloping headland. The view was made from the beach near Hopetoun House (see folio 45 verso; D17582).

Thomas Ardill
September 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘View of the Firth of Forth Towards Blackness Castle 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-view-of-the-firth-of-forth-towards-blackness-castle-r1132927, accessed 26 April 2024.