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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Tay near Perth with Kinnoull Tower from the South-West 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Tay near Perth with Kinnoull Tower from the South-West’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
The River Tay near Perth with Kinnoull Tower from the South-West 1834
D26746
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 42
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 119 x 184 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘42’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXII 42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From the water, or the southern bank of the River Tay to the south-east of Perth, this sketch looks along the river and across to the slopes above the northern bank, with Kinnoull Tower (an eighteenth-century folly) on Kinnoull Hill.1 There is a similar view on the reverse of this page which was made from a little further off, and includes a sailing boat in the foreground (folio 30; D26747; CCLXXII 42a). This may be the same boat that is seen in the distance at the right of the current sketch, and in the view of the Tay on folio 29 verso (D26720; CCLXXII 29).
There are further views of the tower on folios 27 verso and 28 verso (D26724, D26723; CCLXXII 31, 28a).

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, p.22.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The River Tay near Perth with Kinnoull Tower from the South-West 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-the-river-tay-near-perth-with-kinnoull-tower-from-the-south-r1136425, accessed 20 September 2024.