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

At the bottom left of the page is a small and faint sketch of Burleigh Castle, probably seen from the north rather than from the south-east as Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan have suggested.1 The view is very similar to the sketch on folio 4 verso (D26681; CCLXXII 8), and again one of the farm buildings of Burleigh Steadings can be seen behind the castle to the left. For references to further sketches of the castle see folio 8 (D26695; CCLXXII 16).

Above the sketch of the castle and at the right of the page are two rough sketches that Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan have suggested may be of the shoreline of Loch Leven, about a mile to the south of the castle. The hill in the top sketch is a good match for the profile of Benarty Hill with the southern shore of Loch Leven in front of it. The dark scribble represents the island of St Serf’s. This sketch is a good example of how a seemingly rough and careless sketch by Turner can in fact record topography and other details accurately. The sketch at the right of the page, which was drawn with the book turned to the left, probably depicts the outline of the Lomond Hills to the east.