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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Princes Street, with the Stewart Monument from Calton Hill 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Princes Street, with the Stewart Monument from Calton Hill’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Recto:
View of Princes Street, with the Stewart Monument from Calton Hill 1834
D26406
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 77
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘77’ bottom left inverted and ‘340’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIX 77’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this is one of a series of sketches of Edinburgh from near the Stewart Monument (not the Burns’ Monument as Finberg suggested) on Calton Hill.1 Taken from Regent Road to the south of Calton Hill it looks west along Prince’s Street to Edinburgh Castle with the Governor’s House of Calton Gaol at the bottom left and the monument at the upper right. This is one of a series of sketches that explore different compositions of the view of Edinburgh with the Stewart Monument in the foreground. See folio 79 verso (D26411) for further information.

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.867.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘View of Princes Street, with the Stewart Monument from Calton Hill 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-view-of-princes-street-with-the-stewart-monument-from-calton-r1136336, accessed 19 September 2024.