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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking East from Corstorphine Hill over Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth, with St Bernard's Well in the Middle Distance 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking East from Corstorphine Hill over Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth, with St Bernard's Well in the Middle Distance’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
Looking East from Corstorphine Hill over Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth, with St Bernard’s Well in the Middle Distance 1801
D02885
Turner Bequest LV 51a
Pencil on white wove paper, 195 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 52 recto opposite (D02886). For other drawings of St Bernard’s Well see folios 19 verso–20 recto and 21 verso–22 recto (D02836–D02837, D02840–D02841).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking East from Corstorphine Hill over Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth, with St Bernard’s Well in the Middle Distance 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-looking-east-from-corstorphine-hill-over-edinburgh-and-the-r1179075, accessed 24 September 2024.