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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling Castle from Ladies' Rock 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling Castle from Ladies' Rock’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Stirling Castle from Ladies’ Rock 1834
D26365
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 56
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘56’ top right and ‘340’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIX 56’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Taken from the Ladies’ Rock, a knoll in the cemetery to the south of the castle, this view of Stirling takes in Stirling Castle and Snowdon House below the castle walls on this page, and the Carse of Stirling and the distant mountains to the west on the continuation on folio 55 verso (D26364). Turner made a very similar view in the Stirling and the West sketchbook: Tate D26467 (Turner Bequest CCLXX 16a). He had also sketched the same view in the Scotch Lake sketchbook in 1801: D03207–D03208 (Turner Bequest LVI 150a–151).
There are similar views on folios 55 verso and 56 verso (D26366) of the present book. 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 from Ladies’ Rock 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-from-ladies-rock-r1136295, accessed 26 April 2024.