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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling: View of the Castle from the South, Looking North from the Top of the Rock 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling: View of the Castle from the South, Looking North from the Top of the Rock’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 152 Verso:
Stirling: View of the Castle from the South, Looking North from the Top of the Rock 1801
D03207
Turner Bequest LVI 150a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘C Wi | 17’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 153 recto opposite (D03208; Turner Bequest LVI 151). Turner’s viewpoint is the Back Walk, above the King’s Knot. It is a relatively detailed sketch, giving some indication of the elaborate Mannerist sculptural panels on the external walls of the Palace; the main gate is at the extreme right. Henry Crawford says that Snowdon House appears below the Castle,1 but that structure did not exist in 1801.
For other views of Stirling and general comments, see under folio 150 verso (D03203; Turner Bequest LVI 148a).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Crawford 1936, p.18.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Stirling: View of the Castle from the South, Looking North from the Top of the Rock 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-stirling-view-of-the-castle-from-the-south-looking-north-r1179403, accessed 24 April 2024.