Joseph Mallord William Turner

Glen Glass, Near Evanton, Ross-shire

1831

Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)

License this image

In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

View by appointment

Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Sheets Associated with the 1831 Tour of Scotland
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 166 × 201 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D34792
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 325

Catalogue entry

This is one of a small group of sketches on loose sheets of laid writing paper that have been identified as depicting Black Rock Gorge and Glen Glass near Evanton, Ross-shire (for references see Tate D34791; Turner Bequest CCCLXIV d 324).1 Turner visited the gorge while staying with Hugh Munro at Novar House nearby. This sketch may in fact depict Munro as the figure in the foreground looking over the water (see also D34791 for another sketch of this figure).

The present view may be eastward towards Black Rock Gorge from the glen. David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan suggest that the Fyrish Monument is depicted on Cnoc Fyrish in the distance at the top of the sketch.2 There is a sketch of the gorge on another sheet: Tate D34793 (Turner Bequest CCCLXIV d 326).

Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1994, p.15.

Ibid.

Verso:

Blank.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

Read full Catalogue entry