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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rhymer's Glen, Abbotsford 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rhymer's Glen, Abbotsford’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
Rhymer’s Glen, Abbotsford 1834
D26192
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 50
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ?‘glen’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘50’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 50’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch has been identified by David Wallace-Hadrill as depicting the bridge over Rhymer’s Glen on the Abbotsford estate.1 It is seen from below in several sketches, such as the one on folio 51 verso (D26195). The inscription at the bottom of the page is therefore likely to say ‘Glen’ as in folio 55 verso (D26203).
For references to further sketches of the glen and more information on Turner’s visit, see folio 50 verso (D26193).
There are light brown stains across the top right of this page, at the right and at the bottom.

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

1
David Wallace-Hadrill, ‘‘CCLXVIII “Edinburgh” 1831–34’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Rhymer’s Glen, Abbotsford 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-rhymers-glen-abbotsford-r1136120, accessed 19 April 2024.