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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Bridge over the Falls of Dochart at Killin, with Meall Tarmachan 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Bridge over the Falls of Dochart at Killin, with Meall Tarmachan’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
The Bridge over the Falls of Dochart at Killin, with Meall Tarmachan 1801
D03325
Turner Bequest LVII 25
Pencil on white cartridge paper prepared with a violet ground, 149 x 118 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVII – 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 24 verso opposite (D03324). This is one of a group of sketches made at Killin and featuring the bridge over the River Dochart with its two well–separated arches that John Ruskin confused with Tummel Bridge. The Bridge of Dochart was built in 1760 and reconstructed in 1831 after a flood had destroyed it. The new bridge replaced the humped arches of the original structure that Turner records with flatter ones that are in place today.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Bridge over the Falls of Dochart at Killin, with Meall Tarmachan 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-the-bridge-over-the-falls-of-dochart-at-killin-with-meall-r1179523, accessed 24 April 2024.