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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn 1834
D26276
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 9a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of Bonnington Linn was made from directly to the north of the waterfall where an island of rock divides the waterfall into two.1 There is a similar view on folio 10 verso (D26278). For further sketches of the Falls of Clyde see folio 1 verso (D26260).

Thomas Ardill
February 2011

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Identified by Cherry Bowen, Falls of Clyde Visitor Centre, in correspondence with the author 1 November 2010.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn 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-r1136206, accessed 26 April 2024.