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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling: The Rock, with Plain and Distant Mountains to the Left 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling: The Rock, with Plain and Distant Mountains to the Left’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 160 Verso:
Stirling: The Rock, with Plain and Distant Mountains to the Left 1801
D03223
Turner Bequest LVI 158a
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 161 recto opposite (D03224; Turner Bequest LVI 159). The view is up to the western wall of the Castle from King’s Park, with the Trossachs in the distance, dominated by Ben Lomond. For a note on the mountain see under folio 36 verso (D02982; Turner Bequest LVI 36a), and 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 Rock, with Plain and Distant Mountains to the Left 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-rock-with-plain-and-distant-mountains-to-the-r1179419, accessed 19 April 2024.