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

At the top of the page, perched on a cliff top above Corra Linn are the remains of Corra Castle, a fifteenth-century fortified, towered farmhouse that overlooks the highest of the three Falls of Clyde, about a mile to the south of New Lanark. The castle is seen in three of Turner’s sketches of the waterfall on folios 2 verso–5 (D26262–D26267), and there are two further sketches of the present view which is from the cliffs to the south-east of the castle: folios 6 and 6 verso (D26269, D26270). See folio 1 verso (D26260) for further information on Turner’s visit to the Falls of Clyde.