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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oban Pier and Dunollie Castle from Pulpit Hill 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oban Pier and Dunollie Castle from Pulpit Hill’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 98 Verso:
Oban Pier and Dunollie Castle from Pulpit Hill 1831
D26933
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 97a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘24’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have identified this sketch as a view of Oban Bay with Oban Pier at the left and Dunollie Castle on a headland beyond.1 At the left is Maiden Island, with the flat top of Sgurr Bhuic on the eastern shore of Morvern in the distance to the north. The view is from the south of Oban, perhaps from Pulpit Hill as in folio 78 verso (D26897), and is one of several sketches of Oban that Turner made from the south (see folio 78 verso for details).
For further sketches of Oban see folio 58 verso (D26855), and for Turner’s sketches of Dunollie Castle see folio 95 (D26928).

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

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

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Oban Pier and Dunollie Castle from Pulpit Hill 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-oban-pier-and-dunollie-castle-from-pulpit-hill-r1135292, accessed 21 September 2024.