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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Skavaig with Bla Bheinn and Sgurr na Stri from near Elgol, Skye 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch Skavaig with Bla Bheinn and Sgurr na Stri from near Elgol, Skye’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Verso:
Loch Skavaig with Bla Bheinn and Sgurr na Stri from near Elgol, Skye 1831
D26579
Turner Bequest CCLXX 72a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 201 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In a handwritten checklist David Wallace-Hadrill identified this sketch as Loch Skavaig on the Isle of Skye with the peak of Bla Bheinn at the right-hand side. At the centre of the sketch is Sgurr na Stri, the mountain at the head of the loch. The view must be from Elgol or from a boat on the loch. Turner took a boat from Elgol to the head of the loch where he entered Loch Coruisk. There are further sketches of these mountains on folio 73 (D26580); see that catalogue entry for further references.

Thomas Ardill
June 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Loch Skavaig with Bla Bheinn and Sgurr na Stri from near Elgol, Skye 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-loch-skavaig-with-bla-bheinn-and-sgurr-na-stri-from-near-r1135013, accessed 21 September 2024.