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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Glen Glass, Near Evanton, Ross-shire 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Glen Glass, Near Evanton, Ross-shire’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Glen Glass, Near Evanton, Ross-shire 1831
D34792
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 325
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 166 x 201 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘325’ (very faint) bottom-right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 325’ bottom-right
Blindstamped with the Turner Bequest stamp ‘lower-centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a small group of sketches on loose sheets of laid writing paper that have been identified as depicting Black Rock Gorge and Glen Glass near Evanton, Ross-shire (for references see Tate D34791; Turner Bequest CCCLXIV d 324).1 Turner visited the gorge while staying with Hugh Munro at Novar House nearby. This sketch may in fact depict Munro as the figure in the foreground looking over the water (see also D34791 for another sketch of this figure).
The present view may be eastward towards Black Rock Gorge from the glen. David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan suggest that the Fyrish Monument is depicted on Cnoc Fyrish in the distance at the top of the sketch.2 There is a sketch of the gorge on another sheet: Tate D34793 (Turner Bequest CCCLXIV d 326).
1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1994, p.15.
2
Ibid.
Verso:
Blank.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Glen Glass, Near Evanton, Ross-shire 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-glen-glass-near-evanton-ross-shire-r1135598, accessed 18 April 2024.