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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ben Lomond from Inveruglas 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ben Lomond from Inveruglas’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Ben Lomond from Inveruglas 1831
D26476
Turner Bequest CCLXX 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 201 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘21’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXX – 21’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ben Lomond is seen here from the north northwest, probably, as David Wallace-Hadrill has suggested, from the shore at Inveruglas.1 Box shapes in the foreground may represent the remains of a small landing stage or some other structure at the water’s edge, and looking south down the loch at the right of the sketch is a steamboat, noticeable from its trail of smoke. Turner was himself exploring the loch by steamboat (see Tour of Scotland for Scott’s Poetical Works 1831 Tour Introduction) so this sketch gives a good impression of his own journey.
Other views of Loch Lomond are scattered throughout this sketchbook, see folio 23 (D26480) for details.

Thomas Ardill
October 2009

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David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner Round the Clyde and in Islay – 1831’, 1991, Tate catalogue files, folio 1.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Ben Lomond from Inveruglas 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2009, 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-ben-lomond-from-inveruglas-r1134910, accessed 20 September 2024.