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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the South’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Verso:
Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the South 1831
D26877
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 69a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch was made from the promontory at the south-east of the island of Kerrera, and depicts the view looking north along the rocky headland, with the anchorage of Port a’ Chroinn to the left and Gylen Castle standing on a crag beyond it. This is one of twenty-five sketches of Gylen Castle (folios 63 verso–75 verso; D26865–D26889) which Turner made on his visit to Kerrera on his way to the Isle of Mull.

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the South 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-south-r1135234, accessed 24 April 2024.