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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle Campbell, Dollar from the Approach Road 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle Campbell, Dollar from the Approach Road’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Castle Campbell, Dollar from the Approach Road 1834
D26693
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 15
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 184 x 119 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘15’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXII 15’ top right running vertically
Inscribed in pencil by an unknown hand ‘11’ top left running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two sketches of Castle Campbell, drawn with the book turned to the right, were made by Turner as he climbed above the approach road to view the castle from the north-east.1 The top sketch depicts the castle buildings in some detail with the land falling away to the south, Bank Hill to the left and King’s Seat Hill to the right. The sketch beneath shows the same view but in less detail. There is a similar view of the castle on the reverse of this page: folio 9 (D26694; CCLXXII 15a).
Turner began his sketches of the castle from the start of the approach road on folio 6 verso (D26688; CCLXXII 12). See that entry for references to further sketches of the castle.

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, p.19.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Castle Campbell, Dollar from the Approach Road 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-castle-campbell-dollar-from-the-approach-road-r1136384, accessed 17 May 2024.