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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Edinburgh Castle Seen from the West, with Trees and ?the Water of Leith in the Foreground 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Edinburgh Castle Seen from the West, with Trees and ?the Water of Leith in the Foreground’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Edinburgh Castle Seen from the West, with Trees and ?the Water of Leith in the Foreground 1801
D02843
Turner Bequest LV 23
Pencil on white wove paper, 195 x 127 mm
Stamped in black ‘LV – 23’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 22 verso opposite (D02842).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Edinburgh Castle Seen from the West, with Trees and ?the Water of Leith in the Foreground 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-edinburgh-castle-seen-from-the-west-with-trees-and-the-water-r1179033, accessed 25 April 2024.