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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling Castle from King's Park 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling Castle from King's Park’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Stirling Castle from King’s Park 1834
D26343
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 45
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘wh’ right
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘45’ bottom left inverted and ‘340’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIX 45’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted is the continuation of a sketch of Stirling Castle as seen from King’s Park to the south-west (folio 44 verso; D26342). This page continues the panoramic view with distant hills to the north-west. The double-peaked hill at the right may be Ben Ledi, which is seen in many of Turner’s views of Stirling such as on the reverse of this page: folio 45 verso (D26344). The inscription, ‘wh’, beneath what looks like the gabled-end of a barn at the right of the sketch, probably notes the colour ‘wh[ite]’.
For a list of Turner’s many sketches of Stirling, see folio 44 verso.

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Stirling Castle from King’s Park 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-stirling-castle-from-kings-park-r1136273, accessed 20 September 2024.