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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tobermory from the Hill to the West 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tobermory from the Hill to the West’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Recto:
Tobermory from the Hill to the West 1831
D26829
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 46
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘46’ bottom right descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIII 46’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan describe this sketch as a view from the present-day school on the hillside to the south of Tobermory Bay.1 This is therefore a view from halfway along Argyll Street, near the junction with Middle Brae. The sketch compresses a wide panorama as we look north along the street at the left of the picture (where there are a number of figures), and south-east at the right towards the hill at the south of the harbour, the height of which Turner has exaggerated.
For more information about Turner’s time in Tobermory and references to further sketches see folio 1 verso (D26749).

Thomas Ardill
March 2010

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner on Mull and Staffa’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [folio 11].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Tobermory from the Hill to the West 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-tobermory-from-the-hill-to-the-west-r1135187, accessed 25 April 2024.