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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling: The Castle and Church Seen above Trees below the Rock 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling: The Castle and Church Seen above Trees below the Rock’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 159 Verso:
Stirling: The Castle and Church Seen above Trees below the Rock 1801
D03221
Turner Bequest LVI 157a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 160 recto (D03222; Turner Bequest LVI 158). As in other drawings in this sketchbook, Turner seems more concerned here with the foreground trees, in Back Walk, than with the buildings glimpsed beyond them. The top of the tower of the Church of the Holy Rude (see folios 154 verso–155 recto; D03211–D03212; Turner Bequest LVI 152a–153) is just visible at the right.
There is a slight sketch of battlements and a tower among trees in the lower left corner. 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 and Church Seen above Trees 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-and-church-seen-above-trees-below-the-r1179417, accessed 19 September 2024.