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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kinfauns Castle, near Perth 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kinfauns Castle, near Perth’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Kinfauns Castle, near Perth 1834
D26722
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 30
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 119 x 184 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘30’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXII 30’ bottom right
Inscribed in pencil by Edward Croft-Murray ‘28’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Kinfauns Castle is seen here from the shore of the River Tay to the south-east. The river is in the foreground, and we look up the heavily wooded slopes of Bin Hill with the outline of Deuchny Hill above. There are further sketches of the castle on folios 27 verso and 29 (D26724, D26721; CCLXXII 31, 29a). Turner visited Kinfauns Castle and the nearby Kinnoull Tower during a tour that took him to Perth; see folio 31 verso (D26744; CCLXXII 41).

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Kinfauns Castle, near Perth 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-kinfauns-castle-near-perth-r1136420, accessed 05 April 2026.