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In 1900 the art collector Henry Vaughan bequeathed 38 watercolours by JMW Turner to the National Galleries of Scotland, with the stipulation that his watercolours could only be exhibited ‘all at one time free of charge and in the month of January and no longer in every year’. Vaughan’s decision to limit the display of his Turners has ensured that they remain in fine condition, while the annual January exhibition of the Vaughan Bequest has become an Edinburgh institution. Ranging from Wales and Scotland to Venice and the Swiss Alps, from experimental colour studies to literary vignettes, the Vaughan Turners span the artist’s long career and show the diversity of his creative work on paper. Charlotte Topsfield, Senior Curator of British Drawings and Prints at the National Galleries of Scotland, will discuss the watercolours and the history of Edinburgh’s Vaughan Bequest.