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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Arthur's Seat from Across Duddingston Loch 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Arthur’s Seat from Across Duddingston Loch 1831
D25675
Turner Bequest CCLXV 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The hill depicted on this page is clearly the same as the one depicted on folio 7 of this sketchbook (D25654). That sketch has been identified as Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh, as seen from across Duddingston Loch to the south. The current sketch appears to be taken from further away.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Arthur’s Seat from Across Duddingston Loch 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, 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-arthurs-seat-from-across-duddingston-loch-r1134039, accessed 28 March 2024.