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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocks and Sea, with the Ruins of Dunbar Castle 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocks and Sea, with the Ruins of Dunbar Castle’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
Rocks and Sea, with the Ruins of Dunbar Castle 1801
D02711
Turner Bequest LIV 65a
Pencil and scraping-out 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, the subject is continued on folio 66 recto opposite (D02712). This is one of a series of drawings of Dunbar between folios 61 verso and 70 verso (D02703–D02720).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rocks and Sea, with the Ruins of Dunbar Castle 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-rocks-and-sea-with-the-ruins-of-dunbar-castle-r1178897, accessed 23 April 2024.