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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Stirling and Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling Castle Rock and Castle 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling Castle Rock and Castle’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
Stirling Castle Rock and Castle 1834
D26357
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 52
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘52’ top left running vertically and ‘340’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIX 52’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned to the left are two close-up studies of Stirling Castle from the west. Looking up the steep side of Castle Rock the top sketch shows the castle Esplanade while the sketch beneath depicts a corner of the castle wall with one of the castle buildings above it. For a full list of Turner’s sketches of Stirling see folio 44 verso (D26342).

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Stirling Castle Rock and Castle 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-rock-and-castle-r1136287, accessed 26 April 2024.