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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Tummel Bridge Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooded Cliff beside the Old Military Road along Loch Lomond, with the Loch and Ben Lomond to the Right 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded Cliff beside the Old Military Road along Loch Lomond, with the Loch and Ben Lomond to the Right’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
A Wooded Cliff beside the Old Military Road along Loch Lomond, with the Loch and Ben Lomond to the Right 1801
D03283
Turner Bequest LVII 4
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on white cartridge paper prepared with a grey–buff ground, 149 x 118 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVII – 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 3 verso opposite (D03282). The inscription is apparently taken from the commemorative tablet let into the rock shown at the left of the subject. Colonel Lawless was presumably a casualty of the rebellion in 1745 of Prince Charles Stuart, ‘the Young Pretender’. As Finberg noted, a ‘Scottish Pencil’ drawing of this view is Tate D03380 (Turner Bequest LVIII 1).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Wooded Cliff beside the Old Military Road along Loch Lomond, with the Loch and Ben Lomond to the Right 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-a-wooded-cliff-beside-the-old-military-road-along-loch-r1179481, accessed 23 April 2024.