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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bracklinn Falls and Bridge from the East Bank 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bracklinn Falls and Bridge from the East Bank’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
Bracklinn Falls and Bridge from the East Bank 1834
D26732
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 35
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 117 x 184 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘35’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXII 35’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this sketch has been identified as a view of Bracklinn Falls and the Bracklinn Bridge above them, from the east bank of the Keltie Water on the hillside above Callander.1 The bridge is indicated by a sort of ladder shape, just to the left of the centre of the sketch. Turner walked up the west side of the burn and crossed over the bridge to reach the east bank. There are further sketches of the bridge on folios 10 and 12 (D26735, D26733; CCLXXII 36a, 35a). The mountain at the top of the page may be Ben Ledi to the west.
For further sketches of the falls made during this brief excursion from Callander, see folio 33 (D26744; CCLXXII 39a).

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, Vol.10 No.2, p.26.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Bracklinn Falls and Bridge from the East Bank 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-bracklinn-falls-and-bridge-from-the-east-bank-r1136390, accessed 24 April 2024.