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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling Castle and the Parish Church of the Holy Rude 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling Castle and the Parish Church of the Holy Rude’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
Stirling Castle and the Parish Church of the Holy Rude 1834
D26356
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 51a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Stirling Castle and the Parish Church of the Holy Rude to the right are seen here from the King’s Park to the west. This is Turner’s fourth full-page version of this view, suggesting that rather than making multiply sketches in order to record more information about the subject, he was instead testing out different compositions. Unlike other sketches he has here managed to fit the castle and church into a single composition.
See folio 49 verso (D26352) for references to further sketches of the castle from King’s Park, and see folio 44 verso (D26342) for a full list of Turner’s sketches of Stirling. Turner drew a different view of the castle and church on folio 53 verso (D26360).

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Stirling Castle and the Parish Church of the Holy Rude 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-stirling-castle-and-the-parish-church-of-the-holy-rude-r1136286, accessed 26 April 2024.