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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs at Dunnottar Near Stonehaven 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs at Dunnottar Near Stonehaven’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
Cliffs at Dunnottar Near Stonehaven 1831
D27125
Turner Bequest CCLXXVII 61a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have suggested, these coastal cliffs resemble those around Dunnottar Castle near Stonehaven, which Turner sketched on folio 55 verso of this sketchbook (D27118).1 Turner made the sketches during his sea journey from Aberdeen to Edinburgh at the end of his 1831 tour of Scotland.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

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David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Sketchbook CCLXXVII Inverness’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [unpaginated].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Cliffs at Dunnottar Near Stonehaven 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-cliffs-at-dunnottar-near-stonehaven-r1135491, accessed 29 June 2025.