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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Roslin Castle, on a Wooded Hillside above the River 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Roslin Castle, on a Wooded Hillside above the River’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Verso:
Roslin Castle, on a Wooded Hillside above the River 1801
D02677
Turner Bequest LIV 48a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is one of a long sequence of views at Roslin between folios 39 verso and 49 verso (D02660–D02679).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Roslin Castle, on a Wooded Hillside above the River 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-roslin-castle-on-a-wooded-hillside-above-the-river-r1178863, accessed 26 April 2024.