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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle Campbell, Dollar 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle Campbell, Dollar’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Castle Campbell, Dollar 1834
D26703
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 20a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 185 x 119 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Edward Croft-Murray ‘7’ top left running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned to the left are two views of Castle Campbell, drawn by Turner as he approached the ruins by the approach road.1 The first (at the top of the page) is from the east, and shows the building in outline only, with Bank Hill at the left and the Burn of Sorrow below the castle. Beneath is a view from the north-east, with the Burn of Care at the bottom-right of the sketch.
Turner made numerous sketches of the castle from the approach road and from closer-to; see folio 6 verso (D26341; CCLXXII 12) for references.

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, p.18.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Castle Campbell, Dollar 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-castle-campbell-dollar-r1136379, accessed 24 April 2024.