© Manchester Art Gallery
Tantallon Castle
Artist: JMW Turner (1775 - 1851)
Location: Manchester Art Gallery
Date: 1821
Materials: watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 17 x 26 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £25,000 (Total: £151,546; tax remission)
Vendor: Private collector (through Christie's)
Review number: 4583 (1998)
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
Description:
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'.
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