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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Glenelg, Kyles of Rhea 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Glenelg, Kyles of Rhea’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Glenelg, Kyles of Rhea 1831
D26546
Turner Bequest CCLXX 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 201 x 125 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Glenig’ upper centre
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘56’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXX – 56’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have associated the sketch inscribed ‘Glenig’ near the top of the page, along with a sketch on folio 54 (D26542) with Glenelg, a settlement on the eastern shore of the Kyles of Rhea to the east of Skye.1 Turner may have steamed down the Kyles of Rhea on his return to Mull from Skye.

At the very top of the page is another sketch of a mountainous coastline that has the same character of another sketch of the Kyles of Rhea (folio 40 verso; D26515), so it may have been made at the same time. Lower down the page are the continuation of two sketches from folio 55 verso (D26545).

Thomas Ardill
March 2010

1
David Wallace–Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner on the Isle of Skye 1831’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [folios 27, 31].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Glenelg, Kyles of Rhea 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-glenelg-kyles-of-rhea-r1134980, accessed 19 September 2024.