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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ettrick Water near Selkirk 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ettrick Water near Selkirk’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Ettrick Water near Selkirk 1831
D25696
Turner Bequest CCLXV 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches on this page may be of the Ettrick Water near Selkirk. Although there is nothing very distinctive on this page, the river and its banks are similar to sketches of the river in the Abbotsford sketchbook (Tate D26072; Turner Bequest CCLXVII 82). Turner also sketched Selkirk in the Edinburgh sketchbook on his return to Scotland in 1834 (Tate D26173–D26175; Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 40a–41a).
The larger sketch probably continues from folio 31 (D25697) and shows the bend of the river to the south of Selkirk. The view is therefore from the west of the town, across the Ettrick water. At the top of the page is another sketch of the riverbank with a few houses or huts.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Ettrick Water near Selkirk 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-ettrick-water-near-selkirk-r1134060, accessed 20 September 2024.