Joseph Mallord William TurnerSketches of Inveraray and Loch Fyne 1831

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Artist
Title
Sketches of Inveraray and Loch Fyne
From Stirling and the West Sketchbook
Turner Bequest CCLXX
Date 1831
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssupport: 201 x 125 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D26474
Turner Bequest CCLXX 20
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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Sketches of Inveraray and Loch Fyne 1831
D26474
Turner Bequest CCLXX 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 201 x 125 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXX – 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page was used as a double-page spread with folio 19 verso (D26473) for six sketches of Inveraray on Loch Fyne from the north. At the top is the continuation of a view of Inveraray from the north-east along Loch Fyne. Beneath is a view north from near Loch Shira past Garron Bridge to Dubh Loch, and just beneath the bridge there is another depiction of the structure from the south, as part of a view of Duniquoich Hill on folio 19 verso. Third down is the continuation of a sketch of Inveraray and the castle from the north, and at the bottom of the page is another sketch of Inveraray Castle as seen from Garron Bridge. For a fuller explanation of the sketches, more information about Turner’s visit to Loch Fyne in 1831 and references to his other sketches of it, see folio 19 verso.

Thomas Ardill
October 2009

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