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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Scotch Lakes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Kilchurn Castle and Ben Cruachan from the South-East 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kilchurn Castle and Ben Cruachan from the South-East’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
Kilchurn Castle and Ben Cruachan from the South-East 1801
D03026
Turner Bequest LVI 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘mott | 97’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Kilchern’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘58’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 58’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 59 verso opposite (D03025; Turner Bequest LVI 57a). A more finished drawing of the same subject is the ‘Scottish Pencil’, Tate D03395 (Turner Bequest LVIII 16); a related watercolour is untraced.1 For Kilchurn Castle see under folio 53 recto (D03012; Turner Bequest LVI 51).
See also folios 60 verso–61 recto and 61 verso–62 recto (D03027–D03030; Turner Bequest LVI 58a–59, 59a–60).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.339 no.345.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Kilchurn Castle and Ben Cruachan from the South-East 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kilchurn-castle-and-ben-cruachan-from-the-south-east-r1179221, accessed 18 April 2024.