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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Moray Firth and Fort George from the Black Isle 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Moray Firth and Fort George from the Black Isle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
The Moray Firth and Fort George from the Black Isle 1831
D27091
Turner Bequest CCLXXVII 31a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Mory’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches on folios 31 verso, 32 and 32 verso (D27091–D27093) are of the Moray Firth around Fort George. Although these could have been made from the bay at Ardersier to the south of Fort George, it is perhaps more likely that they are all from around Fort Rose, Chanonry Point and Rosemarkie across the Firth on the Black Isle. Fort George is depicted at the right of the bottom sketch on the present page. The sketch at the top probably depicts the shore to the south of the fort. The inscription at the top of this page may say ‘Mory’, referring to the Moray Firth.

Thomas Ardill
April 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Moray Firth and Fort George from the Black Isle 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-moray-firth-and-fort-george-from-the-black-isle-r1135457, accessed 25 April 2024.