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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kilchurn: The Castle from the East 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kilchurn: The Castle from the East’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
Kilchurn: The Castle from the East 1801
D03027
Turner Bequest LVI 58a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘mott | 97’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 61 recto opposite (D03028; Turner Bequest LVI 59). This drawing and that on folios 59 verso–60 recto (D03025–D03026; Turner Bequest LVI 57a–58), were used for a lost watercolour1 engraved by William Miller as a large plate in 1847 (Tate impression: T05813). It seems likely that this was the work shown at the Royal Academy in 1802 (377) as Kilchern Castle, with the Cruachan Ben Mountains, Scotland: Noon, which has usually been identified as the Kilchurn Castle with a Rainbow in Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.2 For the castle, see under folio 53 recto (D03012; Turner Bequest LVI 51).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.339 no.345.
2
Ibid., no.344, pl.55; see Andrew Wilton in Wilton, Inge Bodesohn-Vogel and Helena Robinson, William Turner: Licht und Farbe, exhibition catalogue, Museum Folkwang, Essen 2001, p.285 under nos.28 and 29.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Kilchurn: The Castle from the East 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kilchurn-the-castle-from-the-east-r1179222, accessed 25 April 2024.