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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fort George from above Rosemarkie, the Black Isle 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fort George from above Rosemarkie, the Black Isle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Fort George from above Rosemarkie, the Black Isle 1831
D27093
Turner Bequest CCLXXVII 32a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ?‘G[...] with cows’ lower left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is likely to have been made from above the village of Rosemarkie on the Black Isle. Looking over the rooftops from the road above the village, the view is to the south-east with Rosemarkie Bay at the right and Fort George to the left. Turner made a sketch from nearby with Rosemarkie church in the foreground on folio 62 (D27126). For references to all of Turner’s views of Fort George see folio 6 (D27054).

Thomas Ardill
April 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Fort George from above Rosemarkie, 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-fort-george-from-above-rosemarkie-the-black-isle-r1135459, accessed 26 April 2024.