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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Stirling and Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Douglas, Lanarkshire? 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Douglas, Lanarkshire?’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Douglas, Lanarkshire? 1834
D26303
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 23
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘corn’ centre
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘23’ bottom left inverted and ‘340’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIX 23’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Considering the proximity to sketches of St Bride’s Church, this sketch is likely to depict the Lanarkshire village of Douglas. The towered building at the centre right makes a good match for the church with its narrow, octagonal clock tower, though the other church to the left has not been identified. The river in the foreground is presumably the Douglas Water that flows along the western edge of the village. For references to further sketches of Douglas and its church see folio 24 (D26305).

Thomas Ardill
September 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Douglas, Lanarkshire? 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-douglas-lanarkshire-r1136233, accessed 13 May 2024.