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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gallanach Bay and Cliffs 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gallanach Bay and Cliffs’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Verso:
Gallanach Bay and Cliffs 1831
D26891
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 76a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch has been identified as the view north from Gallanach Bay with the Sound of Kerrera.1 Gallanach Bay lies to the west of the Gallanach Cliffs about two miles south of Oban. Turner came here to make sketches looking towards Oban and Kerrera (folios 60 verso and 76 verso–79; D26859, D26891–D26896).
This sketch shows the bay in the foreground with boulders by the water’s edge, the Gallanach Cliffs straight ahead and a boat sailing down the Sound of Kerrera to the left; the same boat may be seen on folio 77 verso (D26893). The following page of the sketchbook shows the view looking south from the same location (folio 77; D26892).

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1991, p.29.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Gallanach Bay and Cliffs 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-gallanach-bay-and-cliffs-r1135248, accessed 18 April 2024.