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Henry Crawford described these sketches, drawn with the book turned to the right, as ‘four rough structural sketches of the [Stirling] Castle buildings in outline’, and points out that the top sketch includes ‘a few rough circles depicting the King’s Knot.’
1 This is an octagonal stepped mound in King’s Park to the south-west of the castle that by the nineteenth century had already been out of use as a garden for a century and had therefore become indistinct.
2 This and the other three sketches of the castle were therefore made from King’s Park to the south-west of the castle. The sketch at the bottom of the page is a close-up study of the south-east corner of the castle. This is the first page in a series of sketches of the castle from the south: folios 50–51 verso (
D26353–D26356). See folio 46 verso (
D26342) for a full list of Turner’s sketches of Stirling.
Thomas Ardill
October 2010
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