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JMW Turner

The River Tweed and Dryburgh

J.M.W. Turner View of the River Tweed and Dryburgh Abbey

Engraving, Size; W.147 H.81 mm. Published 1832.

The River Tweed flows past the Eildon Hills in the far left distance, through the wooded gorge below Bemersyde, and into a great curving sweep around Dryburgh Abbey. On the hillside in the distance just to the right of centre, you can just make out Wallace's Statue.

Related pages:
Turner's watercolour of Rhymer's Glen
Turner's view of Hermitage Castle
Turner's luncheon with Sir Walter Scott near Melrose
Melrose Abbey
William Wallace's Statue