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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West 1801
D02699
Turner Bequest LIV 59a
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 60 recto opposite (D02700). This is the last of a series of views of Tantallon beginning on folio 56 verso (D02693).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, Seen from the West 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-tantallon-castle-and-the-bass-rock-seen-from-the-west-r1178885, accessed 23 April 2024.