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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views on the Coast at Leith 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views on the Coast at Leith’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Views on the Coast at Leith 1831
D25679
Turner Bequest CCLXV 21a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 59 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Kilcaldy’ upper-centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches across this page and folio 22 (D25680) have been tentatively identified as having been made at Leith Harbour near Edinburgh. The top sketch continues from folio 22 and shows the distant shore of Fife across the Firth of Forth. The second sketch may be inscribed ‘Kilcaldy’, which is a town on the shore of Fife. There is a further sketch of a coastline at the bottom of the page.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Views on the Coast at Leith 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-views-on-the-coast-at-leith-r1134043, accessed 20 September 2024.