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 51 Recto:
Rhymer’s Glen, Abbotsford 1834
D26194
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘51’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 51’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
While this rather slight sketch of Rhymer’s Glen on the Abbotsford estate contains no distinguishing features, the wooded bank of trees and the stream in the foreground are common to the other views of the glen, including the sketch opposite on folio 50 verso (D26193), which is the one that comes closest to Turner’s watercolour vignette of the subject: Rhymer’s Glen, Abbotsford, circa 1834 (National Gallery of Scotland).1 See folio 50 verso for more information on Turner’s visit to the glen and his other sketches of the area.
There are light brown stains at the top centre and bottom centre of the page.

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.432 under cat.1119.

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-r1136122, accessed 26 April 2024.