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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling: The Castle Seen from the Woods below the Rock 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling: The Castle Seen from the Woods below the Rock’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 159 Recto:
Stirling: The Castle Seen from the Woods below the Rock 1801
D03220
Turner Bequest LVI 157
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Stirling’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘157’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 157’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 158 verso opposite (D03219; Turner Bequest LVI 156a). For other views of Stirling and general comments, see under folio 150 verso (D03203; Turner Bequest LVI 148a).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Stirling: The Castle Seen from the Woods below 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-the-castle-seen-from-the-woods-below-the-rock-r1179416, accessed 24 April 2024.