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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling: General View of the Town from the River Forth 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling: General View of the Town from the River Forth’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 164 Recto:
Stirling: General View of the Town from the River Forth 1801
D03230
Turner Bequest LVI 162
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Stirling’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘162’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 162’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 163 verso opposite (D03229; Turner Bequest LVI 161a), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Stirling: General View of the Town from the River Forth 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-stirling-general-view-of-the-town-from-the-river-forth-r1179426, accessed 09 May 2024.