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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River Tweed and Ashestiel 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Tweed and Ashestiel’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Verso:
River Tweed and Ashestiel 1831
D26085
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 88a
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s second sketch of the River Tweed and Ashestiel made from a rowing boat on the river with the sketchbook inverted, like folio 87 (D26086; CCLXVII 89), shows a view east along the Tweed with Ashestiel on the right bank. A small dark shape at the water’s edge towards the middle of this sketch may represent a figure on a horse.
For further information on Turner’s sketches of Ashestiel see folio 88 (D26088; CCLXVII 90).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘River Tweed and Ashestiel 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-river-tweed-and-ashestiel-r1134453, accessed 24 April 2024.