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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle Wynd, Argyll's Lodging, Mars Work and the Parish Church, Stirling 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle Wynd, Argyll's Lodging, Mars Work and the Parish Church, Stirling’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Verso:
Castle Wynd, Argyll’s Lodging, Mars Work and the Parish Church, Stirling 1834
D26362
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 54a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Mars Works | [...] JP&A’ bottom
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made from the Castle Wynd this sketch looks south down Mars Place. The building with crow-step gables at the left is Argyll’s Lodging, a seventeenth-century town house (now open to visitors). There appears to be a figure standing in the doorway. The buildings opposite it to the right no longer stand, but behind them, mainly obscured, is the Mars Works (see folio 54; D26361) and behind that is the Parish Church of the Holy Rude, its tower rising above the roofs. Turner has also drawn a little outline sketch of the church at the top of the page. At the bottom right of the page is a written reference to the ‘Mars Works’ followed by an indecipherable word (perhaps a name) and the initials ‘JP&A’. This page follows two further pages with sketches of the church and nearby buildings: folios 53 verso (D26360) and 54.
For a full list of Turner’s sketches of Stirling see folio 44 verso (D26342).

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Castle Wynd, Argyll’s Lodging, Mars Work and the Parish Church, Stirling 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-castle-wynd-argylls-lodging-mars-work-and-the-parish-church-r1136292, accessed 27 June 2025.