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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vale, with Mountains and a Church Steeple 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vale, with Mountains and a Church Steeple’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Vale, with Mountains and a Church Steeple 1834
D26729
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 33a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 117 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Edward Croft-Murray ‘13’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have suggested two possible identifications for this view. The first is the Carse to the east of Stirling, with the steeple of Logie Kirk at Blair Logie and Dumyat Hill at the left. The second is a view of Callander from the slopes above the town, with the church tower and the hills to the north at the left.1 Of these two suggestions, the second is perhaps more convincing, as there is a river that could be the River Teith. There is also a comparable sketch on folio 41 verso (D26671; CCLXXII 3). For sketches of Callander see folio 33 (D26741; CCLXXII 39a).

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, Vol.10 No.1, p.18; Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, Vol.10 No.2, p.27.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Vale, with Mountains and a Church Steeple 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-vale-with-mountains-and-a-church-steeple-r1136391, accessed 19 April 2024.