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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Half Moon Battery, Edinburgh Castle, from a Window in the Royal Palace 1822

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Half Moon Battery, Edinburgh Castle, from a Window in the Royal Palace’ 1822
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
The Half Moon Battery, Edinburgh Castle, from a Window in the Royal Palace 1822
D17602
Turner Bequest CC 55a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Blindstamped with the Turner Bequest stamp bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn from the Half Moon Battery, or perhaps from the King’s apartment in the Royal Palace of Edinburgh Castle, this sketch, made with the sketchbook inverted, looks over the parapet of the battery with a flag, and down to the left at the crow-step gabled roof of the Portcullis Gate. From the same spot Turner made a sketch looking towards Edinburgh on folio 38 verso (D17569).
At the right of the page is the profile of Arthur’s Seat continued from the sketch on folio 56 verso (D17604).

Thomas Ardill
September 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Half Moon Battery, Edinburgh Castle, from a Window in the Royal Palace 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-the-half-moon-battery-edinburgh-castle-from-a-window-in-the-r1132943, accessed 20 April 2024.