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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Across the River Ness from Castle Hill, Inverness; and Beauly Firth from Clachnaharry 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Across the River Ness from Castle Hill, Inverness; and Beauly Firth from Clachnaharry’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
Across the River Ness from Castle Hill, Inverness; and Beauly Firth from Clachnaharry 1831
D27060
Turner Bequest CCLXXVII 9
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 163 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘9’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXVII 9’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across the top half of this page is a sketch that has been identified as a view across the River Ness towards Tomnahurich Hill from Castle Hill in Inverness.1 In the foreground at the left are the ruins of the old castle. There are further views from the hill on folios 3 verso and 4 (D27049, D27050). For more information on Turner’s sketches of Inverness see folio 2 (D27047).
Across the bottom half of the page is a sketch looking towards the Beauly Firth from the mouth of the Caledonian Canal at Clachnaharry to the west of Inverness. Turner made several sketches from around this point in the Fort Augustus sketchbook (Tate D27043; Turner Bequest CCLXXVI 46a).

Thomas Ardill
April 2010

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Sketchbook CCLXXVII Inverness’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [unpaginated].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Across the River Ness from Castle Hill, Inverness; and Beauly Firth from Clachnaharry 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-across-the-river-ness-from-castle-hill-inverness-and-beauly-r1135426, accessed 24 April 2024.