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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Edinburgh Castle from near Murrayfield 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Edinburgh Castle from near Murrayfield’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
View of Edinburgh Castle from near Murrayfield 1801
D02859
Turner Bequest LV 33a
Pencil on white wove paper, 195 x 127 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 34 recto opposite (D02860).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View of Edinburgh Castle from near Murrayfield 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-view-of-edinburgh-castle-from-near-murrayfield-r1179049, accessed 19 September 2024.