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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bracklinn Falls, near Callander 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bracklinn Falls, near Callander’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Bracklinn Falls, near Callander 1834
D26730
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 34
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 117 x 184 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘34’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXII 34’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this sketch looks up the Bracklinn Falls of the Keltie Waterl on the hillside above Callander to Ben Vorlich to the north at the top right of the sketch. This is one of a number of rough and energetic sketches of the falls that use a variety of lines, shapes and scribbles to capture the character of the rocky hillside, with water streaming down the rocks. Turner made these on a visit to the falls from Callander; see folio 33 (D26741; CCLXXII 39a) for references.

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘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-bracklinn-falls-near-callander-r1136388, accessed 16 April 2024.