Joseph Mallord William Turner

This sketch has been identified as showing the steps down to the natural amphitheatre below Corra Linn waterfall from Corra Castle on the northern bank of the River Clyde.1 Lady Mary Rose had the broad steps cut into the rock around 1817.2 The figure climbing up the steps may be John Gilbert Lockhart who reported in his diary that he took Turner to Craignethan Castle on 19 September 1834, and so may also have accompanied him to the Falls of the Clyde the previous day; see Tour of Scotland for Scott’s Prose Works 1834 Tour Introduction. For further sketches of the Falls of Clyde see folio 1 verso (D26260).