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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the South 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the South’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Recto:
Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the South 1831
D26876
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 69
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘69’ top left running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIII 69’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Gylen Castle is seen here from the promontory at the south-east of Kerrera. Looking due north beyond the rocks in the foreground, the castle stands, as the Steamboat Companion described it, ‘on the extreme verge of an almost perpendicular precipice’ at the south of the island.1 The Isle of Mull can be seen in the distance at the left. At the top left of the page is a sketch that may show the view between the two rocks that are seen at the right of the main sketch.
For more information on Turner’s sketches of Gylen Castle, see folio 73 verso (D26885).

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

1
The Steamboat Companion and Stranger’s Guide to the Western Isles and Highlands of Scotland, Edinburgh 1831, quoted in Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1991, p.27.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the South 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-gylen-castle-kerrera-from-the-south-r1135233, accessed 26 April 2024.