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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fort George from Rosemarkie with the Parish Church, Black Isle 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fort George from Rosemarkie with the Parish Church, Black Isle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Recto:
Fort George from Rosemarkie with the Parish Church, Black Isle 1831
D27126
Turner Bequest CCLXXVII 62
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 163 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘62’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXVII 62’ bottom left descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From the High Street behind the Parish Church, this sketch looks south-east over the village of Rosemarkie and across the Moray Firth to Fort George on the opposite shore. Turner seems to have made a number of sketches of the fort from across the firth: folios 29, 29 verso, 31 verso, 32 and 32 verso (D27087, D27088, D27091, D27092, D27088). From Rosemarkie Turner may have caught the ferry from Chanonry Point to Ardersier, where he continued by road to Elgin.
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Thomas Ardill
April 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Fort George from Rosemarkie with the Parish Church, 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-rosemarkie-with-the-parish-church-black-r1135492, accessed 20 September 2024.