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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Black Rock Gorge, Near Evanton, Ross-shire 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Black Rock Gorge, Near Evanton, Ross-shire’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Black Rock Gorge, Near Evanton, Ross-shire 1831
D34793
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 326
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 153 x 200 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘326’ bottom-right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 326’ bottom-right
Blindstamped with the Turner Bequest stamp upper-centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have identified this and a number of other loose-leaf sketches as Black Rock Gorge, which lies a mile west of Hugh Munro’s estate at Novar near Evanton in Ross-shire (for references see Tate D34791; Turner Bequest CCCLXIV d 324).1 The present sketch may show the waterfall above the gorge.2
1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1994, p.15.
2
The gorge and waterfall are illustrated in John Sinclair, Scenes and Stories of the North of England, Middlesex 2008, reproduced between pp.30–31.
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Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Black Rock Gorge, Near Evanton, Ross-shire 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-black-rock-gorge-near-evanton-ross-shire-r1135599, accessed 22 November 2024.