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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn from Downstream 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn from Downstream’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn from Downstream 1834
D26273
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 8
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘8’ top right and ‘340’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIX 8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of three similar views of Bonnington Linn from upstream to the north; see also folios 7 verso and 8 verso (D26272, D26274). The waterfall is shown at the very centre of the sketch and there is a sheer wall of rock above the gorge in the foreground at the left which is also seen from a little further away on folio 7 verso.
Turner made these sketches on his way from Corra Linn to Bonnington Linn. For further sketches of the Falls of Clyde see folio 1 verso (D26260).

Thomas Ardill
February 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn from Downstream 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2011, 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-falls-of-clyde-bonnington-linn-from-downstream-r1136203, accessed 25 April 2024.