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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle Campbell, Dollar from the Approach Road 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
Castle Campbell, Dollar from the Approach Road 1834
D26694
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 15a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 119 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Rock’ centre left
Inscribed in pencil by Edward Croft-Murray ‘9’ bottom left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Castle Campbell, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, was made from the approach road to the east.1 The castle stands on a hill above Dollar Burn at the south of the Ochil Hills, with King’s Seat Hill to the west at the right and the Glen of Sorrow to the left. The prominent castle buildings are the tower house at the right and the Hall Range at the left. There are two similar views, though from the north-east, on the reverse of this page: folio 9 verso (D26693; CCLXXII 15).
For references to further views of Castle Campbell see folio 6 verso (D26688; CCLXXII 12).

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, p.18.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Castle Campbell, Dollar from the Approach Road 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-castle-campbell-dollar-from-the-approach-road-r1136383, accessed 19 April 2024.