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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the Promontory to the South’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Verso:
Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the Promontory to the South 1831
D26879
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 70a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From the promontory at the south-east of the island of Kerrera we look across the bay of Port a’ Chroinn to Glyen Castle, which stands on a crag to the north-west. Beyond the castle we look along the southern coast of Kerrera to the Isle of Mull.
Turner made eleven sketches from around this point (folios 68–73; D26874–D26884), and twenty-five of the castle in total (folios 63 verso–75 verso; D26865–D26889).

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the Promontory to 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-promontory-to-the-south-r1135236, accessed 27 April 2024.