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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ashestiel From Across the River Tweed c.1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Verso:
Ashestiel From Across the River Tweed 1831
D26087
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 89a
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook inverted is the continuation of a sketch of Ashestiel from the opposite bank of the River Tweed (see folio 88; D26089; CCLXVII 90). On the present page can be seen the wooded banks of the Tweed with Ashestiel Farm and Middle Hill.
See folio 88 for more information and references to other sketches of Ashestiel.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Ashestiel From Across 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-across-the-river-tweed-r1134455, accessed 28 March 2024.