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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Kinardochy and Mount Schiehallion 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch Kinardochy and Mount Schiehallion’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 110 Recto:
Loch Kinardochy and Mount Schiehallion 1801
D03125
Turner Bequest LVI 108
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘108’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 108’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 109 verso opposite (D03124; Turner Bequest LVI 107a), this is a very slight sketch; Finberg suggested that it shows a view ‘near Glen Lyon’,1 but it is more probably a scene on Turner’s route north to Loch Tummel. The rapidly outlined lake is almost certainly Loch Kinardochy, about two miles south of Tummel Bridge; if so, the mountain visible beyond to the left is probably Schiehallion (1083 metres), four miles to the west.
Turner’s route would have taken him past the loch on its eastern side, and he would have seen lake and mountain in this relation (still a popular view today) without having to make a detour. A ‘Scottish Pencil’ view which may show Schiehallion is Tate D03417 (Turner Bequest LVIII 38).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.147.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Loch Kinardochy and Mount Schiehallion 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-loch-kinardochy-and-mount-schiehallion-r1179320, accessed 25 April 2024.