Joseph Mallord William Turner

Glen Bruar: The Middle Fall

1801

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
The ‘Scottish Pencils’
Medium
Chalk, graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 480 × 344 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D03413
Turner Bequest LVIII 34

Catalogue entry

The identification of this and Tate D03412 (Turner Bequest LVIII 33) is due to landscape historian Christopher Dingwall;1 another very plausible suggestion, from Greg Damery,2 is that the waterfall is that on the Keltney Burn near Coshieville, which Turner passed through on his way north from Kenmore to Tummel Bridge; see the 1801 Scotch Lakes sketchbook (Tate D03114–D03115; Turner Bequest LVI 102a–103).
However, the fact that Turner chose to draw the fall twice in some detail in the larger format of the ‘Scottish Pencils’ suggests that he had space to work at leisure, which was more probably the case at Bruar than in the enclosed and precipitous setting of the Keltney Burn.
1
Author of The Falls of Bruar: A Garden in the Wild, Dundee 1987; personal communication.
2
Personal communication.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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