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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the East’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Verso:
Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the East 1831
D26883
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 72a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made eleven sketches of Gylen Castle from the east and south, executed as he prowled around the south of the island of Kerrera: folios 68–73 (D26874–D26884). The present sketch was made from the east just below the crag on which the castle ruins stand. Across the Firth of Lorn to the left is the island of Mull. Turner’s sketches of the castle fill twenty-five pages of the Staffa sketchbook: folios 63 verso–75 verso (D26865–D26889).

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera from the East 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-east-r1135240, accessed 20 September 2024.