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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Mouth of Loch Nevis from the Sound of Sleat 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Mouth of Loch Nevis from the Sound of Sleat’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
The Mouth of Loch Nevis from the Sound of Sleat 1831
D26961
Turner Bequest CCLXXV 4
Pencil on white wove paper, 91 x 153 mm
An imprint from the Turner Bequest blindstamp on the outside front cover at the upper right descending vertically (just visible)
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘4’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXV – 4’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of a ‘rocky coast’, as Finberg simply called it,1 may show the mouth of Loch Nevis from the Sound of Sleat to the west near Arisaig. It falls between sketches of the Armadale coast made on the approach to Arisaig (folio 3 verso; D26960) and a sketch that apparently looks north-east across the mouth of Loch Nevis (folio 4 verso; D26962). It therefore fits within the sequence of sketches, and within Turner’s systematic examination of the views to the north, south, east and west of the Sound of Sleat. The mouth of the loch is bordered at the right by steep hills to the east of the port of Mallaig. To the left is the slightly lower lying southern end of the Knoydart Peninsula.

Thomas Ardill
March 2010

1
Finberg, II, p.880, CCLXXV 4

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Mouth of Loch Nevis from the Sound of Sleat 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-the-mouth-of-loch-nevis-from-the-sound-of-sleat-r1135302, accessed 16 April 2024.