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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Gordon Castle, Fochabers; and a Church 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Gordon Castle, Fochabers; and a Church’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 144 Verso:
?Gordon Castle, Fochabers; and a Church 1831
D27222
Turner Bequest CCLXXVII 144a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 163 x 104 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch of a building on a hill can be tentatively identified as Gordon Castle at Fochabers near Elgin. There are sketches of the Bridge at Fochabers on the opposite sketchbook page, folio 145 (D27223). Beneath is a sketch of a street with a building with a tall steeple and spire. This does not match any buildings at Fochabers and has not been identified.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘?Gordon Castle, Fochabers; and a Church 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-gordon-castle-fochabers-and-a-church-r1135589, accessed 24 April 2024.