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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Valley, with a River, Distant Hills and a Castle, Perhaps Castle Campbell 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Valley, with a River, Distant Hills and a Castle, Perhaps Castle Campbell’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Verso:
Valley, with a River, Distant Hills and a Castle, Perhaps Castle Campbell 1834
D26397
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 72a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of a distant tower on a hill with a river and bridge in the foreground cannot be identified with any certainty. However a plausible suggestion is Castle Campbell at Dollar in Clackmannanshire. The castle stands on a foothill of the Ochil Hills with Dollar Burn running past it towards the town. Turner made several sketches of the castle from the foot of the approach road at Dollar with the burn in the foreground that are comparable to some extent with the present sketch: see Tate D26688 (Turner Bequest CCLXXII 12).
For references to further sketches of the castle in the present book see folio 70 verso (D26393).

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Valley, with a River, Distant Hills and a Castle, Perhaps Castle Campbell 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-valley-with-a-river-distant-hills-and-a-castle-perhaps-r1136327, accessed 26 September 2024.