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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Scotch Lakes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses in Edinburgh, with the Spire of St Giles's Cathedral 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses in Edinburgh, with the Spire of St Giles's Cathedral’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Houses in Edinburgh, with the Spire of St Giles’s Cathedral 1801
D02928
Turner Bequest LVI 2
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Most of the Edinburgh views recorded on this tour are to be found in the sketchbook of that name (Tate; Tuner Bequest LV).
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Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘high Church Edinborogh’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Houses in Edinburgh, with the Spire of St Giles’s Cathedral 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-houses-in-edinburgh-with-the-spire-of-st-giless-cathedral-r1179120, accessed 26 April 2024.