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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh; and Bothwell Church 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh; and Bothwell Church’ 1834 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside back cover:
?Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh; and Bothwell Church 1834
D41048
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Bothwell’ lower left
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIX’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill has suggested that the three sketches of a domed building on this page are the Bank of Scotland headquarters on the Mound in Edinburgh.1 While this suggestion is plausible because of the context of nearby sketches of Edinburgh in this sketchbook, Turner’s sketch is not an overwhelming match for the Bank of Scotland building. The two domes of the third sketch down are suggestive of Greenwich Hospital in London. See also folio 90 verso (D26433).
At the bottom left of the page is a sketch of a church tower inscribed ‘Borthwick’. Turner visited Bothwell Castle during a tour of Lanarkshire and sketched the church tower on folio 31 (D26319).

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

1
David Wallace-Hadrill, [CCLXIX Checklist], [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, unpaginated MS, ‘CCLXIX back cover’.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘?Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh; and Bothwell Church 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-bank-of-scotland-edinburgh-and-bothwell-church-r1136366, accessed 14 September 2026.