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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Edinburgh and Arthur's Seat from the West, with the Water of Leith in the Foreground 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Edinburgh and Arthur's Seat from the West, with the Water of Leith in the Foreground’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
View of Edinburgh and Arthur’s Seat from the West, with the Water of Leith in the Foreground 1801
D02877
Turner Bequest LV 46a
Pencil on white wove paper, 195 x 127 mm
Partial watermark ‘lgar’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 47 recto opposite (D02878).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View of Edinburgh and Arthur’s Seat from the West, with 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-view-of-edinburgh-and-arthurs-seat-from-the-west-with-the-r1179067, accessed 23 April 2024.