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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kilchurn: The Castle ?from the North-East 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kilchurn: The Castle ?from the North-East’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
Kilchurn: The Castle ?from the North-East 1801
D03029
Turner Bequest LVI 59a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 62 recto opposite (D03030; Turner Bequest LVI 60). It is one of a group of drawings of Kilchurn that Turner used when creating his large watercolour of the subject, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1802 (377) as Kilchern Castle, with the Criuchan Ben Mountains, Scotland: Noon. See folios 53 recto, 59 verso–60 recto and 60 verso–61 recto (D03012, D03025–D03026, D03027–D03028; Turner Bequest LVI 51, 57a–58, 58a–59).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Kilchurn: The Castle ?from the North-East 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kilchurn-the-castle-from-the-north-east-r1179224, accessed 23 December 2024.