About this artwork

The Scottish National Gallery has the only set of Turner’s literary vignettes that remain together in one collection, his twenty illustrations for ‘The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell’. These were made to be engraved in Edward Moxon’s edition of Campbell’s poems, published in 1837. A copy of this book is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery Print Room. Turner made two illustrations for the poem ‘Gertrude of Wyoming’ (see also D 5166), which is set around the massacre of European settlers which occurred in Wyoming in Pennsylvania in 1778. Turner concentrated on the idyllic pastoral elements of the story, and the beauty of the country, rather than the horror of the massacre.

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  • artist:
  • title:
    One of Twenty Vignettes - The Valley (Illustration to 'Gertrude of Wyoming')
  • date created:
    About 1835
  • materials:
    Watercolour over pencil on paper
  • measurements:
    14.00 x 11.00 cm
  • object type:
  • credit line:
    Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Gallery of Scotland, 1988
  • accession number:
    D 5165
  • gallery:
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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner