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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Fast Castle on the East Lothian Coast 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Fast Castle on the East Lothian Coast’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
?Fast Castle on the East Lothian Coast 1831
D25730
Turner Bequest CCLXV 48
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘48’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXV 48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The ruined tower depicted on this page is likely to be Fast Castle on the East Lothian Coast, as in the sketch on folio 49 (D25732). Although the uncertain identification of folio 47 verso (D25729) also raises a number of other possibilities.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘?Fast Castle on the East Lothian Coast 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-fast-castle-on-the-east-lothian-coast-r1134094, accessed 24 September 2024.