Art Funded
Tantallon Castle
© Manchester Art Gallery
JMW Turner (1775 - 1851)
Manchester Art Gallery
1821
One of two landscapes from a set of eight executed as illustrations for Sir Walter Scott's 'The Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland' (1819-1826). A wild coastal view whose rough sea was analysed by Ruskin in 'Modern Painters'. The grant is for two paintings, the other one is 'Linlithgow Palace'.
- Medium: watercolour on paper
- Dimensions: 17 x 26 cm
- Art Fund Grant: £25000 ( Total: £151,546; Tax Remission)
- ArtFunded in: 1998
- Vendor: Private collector (through Christie's)
Provenance
Sir Walter Scott thence by descent until 1886; Ralph Brocklebank thence by descent until 1938; Rayner MacConnell, London; Private Collection thence by descent to current owner
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