J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling from Abbey Craig; and Ben Lomond from Stirling 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling from Abbey Craig; and Ben Lomond from Stirling’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
Stirling from Abbey Craig; and Ben Lomond from Stirling 1831
D26463
Turner Bequest CCLXX 14a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 201 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Henry Crawford and later Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan wrote that this view of Castle Rock with Stirling Castle is seen from east of Cambuskenneth.1 However, the large hill at the left foreground suggests that the view is more likely to be from just west of Abbey Craig to the north-east of the castle. There are further views from around Abbey Craig on folios 12 verso–14 (D26458–D26462). At the bottom of the page is a view west from Abbey Craig towards Ben Lomond.

Thomas Ardill
June 2010

1
Crawford 1936, p.23; Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, p.17.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Stirling from Abbey Craig; and Ben Lomond from Stirling 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-stirling-from-abbey-craig-and-ben-lomond-from-stirling-r1134897, accessed 25 April 2024.