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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bracklinn Falls with Two Figures, Near Callander 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bracklinn Falls with Two Figures, Near Callander’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Bracklinn Falls with Two Figures, Near Callander 1834
D26739
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 38a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 119 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Edward Croft-Murray ‘21’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rocky hillside is likely to be the hill above Callander to the north-east with the Bracklinn Falls.1 Although Turner’s scribbles, lines and shapes are hard to decipher, his energetic sketch captures the romantic rocky landscape, which is made more sublime by his inclusion of two small figures at the bottom of the page who are dwarfed by the rocks above them. The same device is used in other sketches of the falls on folios 10 and 22 verso (D26735, D26736; CCLXXII 36a, 37).
For further sketches of Bracklinn Falls and other nearby sites, see folio 33 (D26741; 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 with Two Figures, Near Callander 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-with-two-figures-near-callander-r1136407, accessed 24 April 2024.