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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View through Trees towards Gretna and the Solway Firth 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View through Trees towards Gretna and the Solway Firth’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 180 Verso:
View through Trees towards Gretna and the Solway Firth 1801
D03263
Turner Bequest LVI 178a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 181 recto opposite (D03264; Turner Bequest LVI 179). Further views of Gretna Green are on folios 183 verso–184 recto and 186 verso–187 recto (D03269–D03270, D03275–D03276; Turner Bequest LVI 181a–182, 184a–185); see also folios 185 verso–186 recto (D03273–D03274; Turner Bequest LVI 183a–184).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View through Trees towards Gretna and the Solway Firth 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-through-trees-towards-gretna-and-the-solway-firth-r1179459, accessed 24 April 2024.