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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Callander from the East with the Parish Church and Ben Ledi Beyond 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Callander from the East with the Parish Church and Ben Ledi Beyond’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Callander from the East with the Parish Church and Ben Ledi Beyond 1834
D26705
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 21a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 116 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Edward Croft-Murray ‘19’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From just east of the town of Callander, this sketch, continued at the left on folio 18 verso (D26706; CCLXXII 22), looks west towards the town. It depicts the spire of the old Parish Church at the centre of the present page and the mountain of Ben Ledi directly above it. The view is panoramic, taking in at the left the ridge of hills to the south of the town. Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan have suggested that Turner made this sketch on his approach to the town, having travelled west from Doune.1
For further views of Callander, Ben Ledi and nearby sites, see folio 33 (D26741; CCLXXII 39a).

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, Vol.10 No.2, p.25

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Callander from the East with the Parish Church and Ben Ledi Beyond 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-callander-from-the-east-with-the-parish-church-and-ben-ledi-r1136403, accessed 03 June 2026.