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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The 'Bracklinn' Falls, near Callander 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The 'Bracklinn' Falls, near Callander’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
The ‘Bracklinn’ Falls, near Callander 1834
D26734
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 36
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 184 x 119 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ?‘Bracklinn’ lower centre, ?‘waterfall’ upper centre inverted
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘36’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXII 36’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inscription on this page has helped to confirm its identification as a view of the Bracklinn Falls on the hillside to the north-east of Callander. Although the word is not clear, it does, as Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan have pointed out, begin ‘with B and [end] with ...lin’ suggesting ‘Bracklinn’, or some variation of it, as a likely possibility.1
Drawn with the sketchbook turned to the right is a sketch looking up the Kiltie Water, with the waterfall flowing between rocks. Turner may have written another inscription across the centre of the waterfall, perhaps the word ‘waterfall’? Above and below the sketch are two outlines of mountains. The bottom sketch makes a good match for Ben Ledi, which can be seen to the west. The sketch at the top may be a view further up the hill above the waterfall.
For further sketches of Bracklinn Falls and nearby sites see folio 33 (D26741; CCLXXII 39a).

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, Vol.10 No.2, p.26.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The ‘Bracklinn’ Falls, near Callander 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-the-bracklinn-falls-near-callander-r1136386, accessed 25 April 2024.