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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Edinburgh High Street, Looking East 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Edinburgh High Street, Looking East’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Recto:
Edinburgh High Street, Looking East 1834
D26241
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 77
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘77’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 77’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a short series of sketches that Turner made of Edinburgh’s High Street on the Royal Mile. The view looks east down the street with the Tron Kirk at the right. On the left-hand side of the street is John Knox’s House (see folio 18 verso; D26129). There is a similar view on folio 76 (D26239) and a study of the Tron Kirk on folio 75 (D26237). Sketches of Canongate further down the Royal Mile are on folios 18 verso–19 verso (D26129–D26131).

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Edinburgh High Street, Looking East 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2010, 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-edinburgh-high-street-looking-east-r1136169, accessed 19 September 2024.