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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1831 > Sound of Mull (?) No. 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Dunollie or Tioram Castle 1831

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Dunollie or Tioram Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
?Dunollie or Tioram Castle 1831
D26950
Turner Bequest CCLXXIV 8
Pencil on white wove paper, 91 x 153 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘8’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIV – 8’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have suggested that the ruin standing on a rock in this sketch is either Dunollie Castle near Oban, or Tioram Castle in Loch Moidart.1 The ruin certainly bears a resemblance to Dunollie Castle (see for example Tate D26927; CCLXXIII 94a), which Turner passed as the boat he was traveling on left Oban Bay for the Sound of Mull. The ruin looks less like Tioram Castle, the islands or rocks to the right do not correspond to its locations, and it is doubtful that Turner would have seen Tioram Castle.
1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner on the Isle of Skye 1831’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [folio 29].
Verso:
Blank

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘?Dunollie or Tioram Castle 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-dunollie-or-tioram-castle-r1135324, accessed 19 April 2024.