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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Vale of Earn near Crieff 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Vale of Earn near Crieff’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 147 Recto:
?The Vale of Earn near Crieff 1801
D03196
Turner Bequest LVI 145
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘mott | 97’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Vale of Earne’ bottom centre
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘145’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 145’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 146 verso opposite (D03195; Turner Bequest LVI 144a).
Finberg suggests a connection with the ‘Scottish Pencil’ drawing Tate D03423 (Turner Bequest LVIII 44),1 which art historian Francina Irwin has identified as showing the western end of the Vale of Earn; but there are few similarities between the two drawings.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.149.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?The Vale of Earn near Crieff 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-the-vale-of-earn-near-crieff-r1179392, accessed 19 September 2024.