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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn from Downstream 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn from Downstream’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn from Downstream 1834
D26272
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 7a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Bonnington Linn is seen here from downstream to the north.1 The waterfall is depicted at the upper centre of the sketch as a row of tightly hatched vertical lines. Beneath the fall the River Clyde twists and turns through the gorge in the foreground. There are similar views on folios 8 and 8 verso (D26273, D26274). Turner made these on his way to Bonnington Linn from Corra Linn to the north. For further sketches of the Falls of Clyde see folio 1 verso (D26260).

Thomas Ardill
February 2011

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Suggested by Cherry Bowen, Falls of Clyde Visitor Centre, in correspondence with the author 1 November 2010.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Falls of Clyde: Bonnington Linn from Downstream 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2011, 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-bonnington-linn-from-downstream-r1136202, accessed 19 April 2024.