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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Continuation of a View from Mill's Mount Battery of Edinburgh Castle 1822

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Continuation of a View from Mill's Mount Battery of Edinburgh Castle’ 1822
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Continuation of a View from Mill’s Mount Battery of Edinburgh Castle 1822
D17613
Turner Bequest CC 61
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘61’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CC 61’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the right of the page with the sketchbook inverted is the slight continuation of the view north-east from Edinburgh Castle on folio 60 verso (D17612). The few marks on this page represent the spire of St Andrew’s Church on George Street, and above it the hill of North Berwick Law, twenty miles away to the north-east (see folio 60; D17611).

Thomas Ardill
September 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Continuation of a View from Mill’s Mount Battery of Edinburgh 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-continuation-of-a-view-from-mills-mount-battery-of-edinburgh-r1132954, accessed 20 September 2024.