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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River Clyde from Corra Linn 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Clyde from Corra Linn’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
River Clyde from Corra Linn 1834
D26284
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 13a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘3’ lower centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main sketch is likely to be looking downstream along the River Clyde from the top of Corra Linn. See folio 1 verso (D26260) for references to sketches of the Falls of Clyde. At the left of the page is the continuation of the sketch of Craignethan Castle from folio 14 verso (D26286), Turner having peeled back that page a few inches in order to continue his sketch at the left on the present page.

Thomas Ardill
February 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘River Clyde from Corra 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-river-clyde-from-corra-linn-r1136214, accessed 25 April 2024.