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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Falls of Clyde: Cora Linn 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Falls of Clyde: Cora Linn’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Falls of Clyde: Cora Linn 1834
D26266
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 4a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across the present page and folio 5 (D26267) is a double-page sketch of the Corra Linn waterfall as seen from the top of the gorge to the north-east near Bonnington Pavilion. At the top of the cliff on the present are the ruins of Corra Castle (see folios 5 verso–6 verso; D26268–D26270), and on the continuing page are the steps cut into the rock that provided access down to the foot of the waterfall from the top of the gorge. For more information on Turner’s visit to the Falls of the Clyde, see folio 1 verso (D26260).

Thomas Ardill
September 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Falls of Clyde: Cora Linn 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-falls-of-clyde-cora-linn-r1136196, accessed 23 April 2024.