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 Bank of the River Tweed at ?Darnick 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bank of the River Tweed at ?Darnick’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
Bank of the River Tweed at ?Darnick 1834
D26208
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘58’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 58’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook’s gutter at the top of the page, this sketch of a riverbank and its reflection in the water may have been made at the River Tweed near Darnick, west of Melrose. There is a sketch of Darnick Bridge on the opposite sketchbook page: folio 57 verso (D26207).
There is an oval brown stain in the top left corner of this page. This can also be seen on the reverse of this page and on the following pages: folios 58 verso–59 verso (D26209–D26211).

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Bank of the River Tweed at ?Darnick 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-bank-of-the-river-tweed-at-darnick-r1136136, accessed 19 April 2024.