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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dumbarton: A Distant View of the Rock from the North-West, with the Harbour in the Foreground 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dumbarton: A Distant View of the Rock from the North-West, with the Harbour in the Foreground’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Dumbarton: A Distant View of the Rock from the North-West, with the Harbour in the Foreground 1801
D02976
Turner Bequest LVI 33
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Dumbarton’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘33’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 33’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. See under folio 25 verso (D02961).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Dumbarton: A Distant View of the Rock from the North-West, with the Harbour 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-dumbarton-a-distant-view-of-the-rock-from-the-north-west-r1179169, accessed 18 April 2024.