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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of the Armadale Coast, Skye with the Islands of Rum and Eigg and the Cuillin Mountains 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of the Armadale Coast, Skye with the Islands of Rum and Eigg and the Cuillin Mountains’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
Sketches of the Armadale Coast, Skye with the Islands of Rum and Eigg and the Cuillin Mountains 1831
D26960
Turner Bequest CCLXXV 3a
Pencil on white wove paper, 91 x 153 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXV – 3a’ top left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made the three sketches on this page as the boat he was travelling on crossed the Sound of Sleat on its approach to Ardvasar on Skye. At the top of the page is a view looking north along the coast of Armadale, between the Aird of Sleat and Ardvasar. Beneath this is a sketch looking in the opposite direction: south along the Armadale coastline with the island of Rum emerging behind the Point of Sleat at the south of Skye, and with the Isle of Eigg to the left. Beneath this Turner’s final sketch on the page, inscribed ‘Cul’ and ‘Point of Slate’, depicts the Cuillin mountain range to the west with the Point of Sleat in the foreground.1

Thomas Ardill
March 2010

1
Identified by David Wallace–Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner on the Isle of Skye 1831’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [folio 8].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Sketches of the Armadale Coast, Skye with the Islands of Rum and Eigg and the Cuillin Mountains 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-the-armadale-coast-skye-with-the-islands-of-rum-r1135301, accessed 18 May 2024.