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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sound of Kerrera from The Little Horseshoe, Kerrera 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Sound of Kerrera from The Little Horseshoe, Kerrera’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Recto:
The Sound of Kerrera from The Little Horseshoe, Kerrera 1831
D26890
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 76
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘76’ top left running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIII 76’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Sound of Kerrera is seen here from the east coast of the island of Kerrera.1 The view looks north along the shore of the island and up the Sound of Kerrera, with the Little Horseshoe Bay in the foreground and Gallanach to the right, from where Turner had boarded his ferry to Kerrera (see folio 77 verso; D26893). Having landed on Kerrera, Turner made his way to the south of the island where he sketched Gylen Castle (folios 63 verso–75 verso; D26865–D26889), and from there to Barr-nam-boc Bay at the west of the island (folios 61–63; D26860–D26854).

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

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Identified by Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1991, p.29.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Sound of Kerrera from The Little Horseshoe, Kerrera 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-the-sound-of-kerrera-from-the-little-horseshoe-kerrera-r1135247, accessed 23 April 2024.