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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle Campbell, Dollar from the South 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle Campbell, Dollar from the South’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Castle Campbell, Dollar from the South 1834
D26717
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 27a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 117 x 182 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Edward Croft-Murray ‘15’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Castle Campbell near Dollar is seen here from the Dollar Glen to the south. Looking up the steep southern slope of the castle hill, the view focuses on the hall range, with the garden beneath and the tower house above. At the bottom of the page is a stone archway on the knoll known as John Knox’s Pulpit. David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have suggested that this is separate to the sketch of the castle.1 However, the knoll does lie to the south of the castle, and would be visible from the same viewpoint, so perhaps this should be regarded as a composite sketch rather than two separate ones. There are further views of the archway on folios 8 verso and 14 verso (D26696, D26718; CCLXXII 16a, 28). For references to further sketches see folio 6 verso (D26341; CCLXXII 12).

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

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

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Castle Campbell, Dollar from the South 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-south-r1136395, accessed 22 November 2024.