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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1831 > Loch Long Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Goil with Carrick Castle 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch Goil with Carrick Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Loch Goil with Carrick Castle 1831
D26623
Turner Bequest CCLXXI 3
Pencil on off-white laid writing paper, 101 x 158 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘3’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXI – 3’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The larger sketch on this page is of Loch Goil, as seen from about half way up the loch looking south, with Carrick Castle at the right. Turner made a number of sketches of this view; see folio 4 verso (D26626) for details. The sketch beneath this, made with the book inverted, is also likely to be of Loch Goil, probably showing the view in the opposite direction looking north along the east shore of the loch.

Thomas Ardill
October 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Loch Goil with Carrick Castle 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2009, 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-loch-goil-with-carrick-castle-r1135060, accessed 19 April 2024.