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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the West 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the West’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the West 1831
D26866
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 64
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘64’, top left running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIII 64’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of the sketches of Gylen Castle that Turner made from the west: folios 63 verso–67 verso (D26865–D26873). It was either Turner’s second depiction of the castle or his penultimate sketch before he struck off from the coast to join the path to Barnabuck (see folio 62 verso; D26863). The castle is therefore seen from several hundred metres away, from the crags beneath the cliffs on the headland to the west.
See folio 73 verso (D26885) for further details about Turner’s visit to Gylen Castle.

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the West 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-gylen-castle-kerrera-from-the-west-r1135223, accessed 25 April 2024.