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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ashestiel from the East Along the River Tweed 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ashestiel from the East Along the River Tweed’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Verso:
Ashestiel from the East Along the River Tweed 1831
D26081
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 86a
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
After visiting Ashestiel Turner continued to sketch the house and the view west along the River Tweed as he left by carriage. This sketch was made when Turner asked for the carriage to be stopped for a second time as Robert Cadell, who was with the artist, recalled: ‘Mr Turner again left about half a mile farther on by a ford – a few minutes brought him back’.1 The ford is near Ashestiel Bridge where the Glenkinnon Burn enters the Tweed.
The house itself is visible on the bank at the left. There is a small detailed view on folio 85 (D26082; CCLXVII 87), which also contains a similar view along the Tweed, though from a little higher up the bank and closer to Ashestiel.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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Robert Cadell, ‘Abbotsford Diary’, 5 August 1831, quoted in Gerald E. Finley, ‘J.M.W. Turner and Sir Walter Scott: Iconography of a Tour’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol.31, 1972, p.379.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Ashestiel from the East Along the River Tweed 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-ashestiel-from-the-east-along-the-river-tweed-r1134449, accessed 12 May 2024.