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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Confluence of the Gala Water and the River Tweed 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Confluence of the Gala Water and the River Tweed’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
The Confluence of the Gala Water and the River Tweed 1834
D26185
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 46a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the last sketch that Turner made of the Gala Water at Galashiels as he headed towards Abbotsford and Melrose. The sketch looks south-east along the Gala Water towards its confluence with the River Tweed. Beyond the river is Eildon Hill with its three peaks. Abbotsford, the home of the late Sir Walter Scott, is just out of sight at the right of the sketch, and is depicted on the following page of the sketchbook (folio 47; D26186).
For further references to sketches of Galashiels and details about the context of Turner’s visit to the town, see folio 42 verso (D26177).
There is a pale brown stain across the left of this page.

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Confluence of the Gala Water and the River Tweed 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2011, 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-the-confluence-of-the-gala-water-and-the-river-tweed-r1136113, accessed 20 April 2024.