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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Awe from near Dalmally 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch Awe from near Dalmally’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Verso:
Loch Awe from near Dalmally 1831
D26909
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 85a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have identified this sketch as a view of Loch Awe from near Dalmally at the head of the loch. There is a single arched bridge in the foreground and what the authors see as a set of small buildings, perhaps including a water-mill at the right.1 Turner seems to have made only two sketches of Loch Awe in 1831. The other is on the other side of this sketchbook page; folio 85 (D26908; CCLXXIII 85).

Thomas Ardill
January 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan, ‘Turner in Argyll in 1831: Inveraray to Oban’, 1991, p.21.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Loch Awe from near Dalmally 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-awe-from-near-dalmally-r1135266, accessed 26 April 2024.