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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sound and Island of Kerrera from Gallanach 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Sound and Island of Kerrera from Gallanach’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Recto:
The Sound and Island of Kerrera from Gallanach 1831
D26892
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 77
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘77’ top left running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIII 77’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Sound and island of Kerrera are seen in this sketch from Gallanach Bay, two miles south of Oban with the Gallanach Cliffs in the foreground.1 The sketch belongs to a series of views that Turner made of Gallanach, the Sound of Kerrera, the island of Kerrera, Dunollie Castle and Carding Mill from around this location (folios 76 verso–79; D26891–D26896).

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

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

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Sound and Island of Kerrera from Gallanach 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-the-sound-and-island-of-kerrera-from-gallanach-r1135249, accessed 20 April 2024.