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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gylen Castle, Kerrera and the Firth of Lorn from the North 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera and the Firth of Lorn from the North’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
Gylen Castle, Kerrera and the Firth of Lorn from the North 1831
D26888
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 75
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘75’ top left running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIII 75’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of four sketches of Gylen Castle from the north made by Turner, either as he approached or withdrew from the castle (folios 74–75 verso; D26886–D26889). The ruin stands on a rock (its elevation perhaps exaggerated in the current sketch) on a headland at the south of the island of Kerrera. Headlands to the east and west flank the castle at either side of this sketch, with the Firth of Lorn beyond it, the coast of Argyll at the left and the Isle of Mull at the right. There are twenty-five pages of sketches of the castle from folios 63 verso–75 verso (D26865–D26889).

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Gylen Castle, Kerrera and the Firth of Lorn from the North 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-and-the-firth-of-lorn-from-the-north-r1135245, accessed 26 April 2024.