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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Goil Looking South with Carrick Castle 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch Goil Looking South with Carrick Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Loch Goil Looking South with Carrick Castle 1831
D26626
Turner Bequest CCLXXI 4a
Pencil on off-white laid writing paper, 101 x 158 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXI – 4a’ top left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Along the fore-edge of this page is a sketch of Loch Goil looking south towards Carrick Castle, which sits on a small promontory to the right. Turner made a number of sketches of Loch Goil and Carrick Castle from a boat travelling north up the loch on folios 3, 3 verso, 5 and 5 verso (D26440, D26441, D26444, D26445). There is a series of studies of Carrick Castle in the Stirling and the West sketchbook (Tate D26471, Turner Bequest CCLXX 18a).
At the bottom of the page, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, is a sketch of the shore of a loch. This is probably a view from the vantage point as the previous sketch, but this time looking north to the head of the loch.

Thomas Ardill
October 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Loch Goil Looking South with Carrick Castle 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2009, 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-loch-goil-looking-south-with-carrick-castle-r1135063, accessed 25 April 2024.