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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling from the South 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling from the South’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 154 Verso:
Stirling from the South 1801
D03211
Turner Bequest 152a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘C Wi | 17’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 155 recto opposite (D03212; Turner Bequest LVI 153). This is a more distant view of the Stirling Rock than that on folios 152 verso–153 recto (D03207–D03208; Turner Bequest LVI 150a–151). Taken from King’s Park, it includes the Castle on its towering cliff to the left and, to the right, the town with the tower of the Church of the Holy Rude, the largely fifteenth-century rebuilding of an early twelfth-century foundation; ‘Rude’ is an alternative spelling of ‘Rood’, or Crucifix. The tower was erected in a complete rebuilding of the church after a fire in 1405.
For other views of Stirling and general comments, see under folio 150 verso (D03203; Turner Bequest LVI 148a).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Stirling from the South 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-stirling-from-the-south-r1179407, accessed 25 April 2024.