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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Long seen through Trees, with Ben Arthur Rising into Clouds Above 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch Long seen through Trees, with Ben Arthur Rising into Clouds Above’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Loch Long seen through Trees, with Ben Arthur Rising into Clouds Above 1801
D03290
Turner Bequest LVII 7a
Gouache with scraping–out on white cartridge paper prepared with a grey–buff ground, 149 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For the general setting, see under folio 4 verso (D03284). As Finberg noted,1 a ‘Scottish Pencil’ of this subject is Tate D03430 (Turner Bequest LVIII 51), which he identified as a view of Ben Arthur, although this must remain tentative. Finberg recorded this page and folio 8 recto opposite (D03291) as a single composition, but the existence of the more finished version of the subject as an upright composition seems to confirm that the two pages bear separate, though similar, images.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

Revised by Matthew Imms
April 2015

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.151.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Loch Long seen through Trees, with Ben Arthur Rising into Clouds Above 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, revised by Matthew Imms, April 2015, 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-long-seen-through-trees-with-ben-arthur-rising-into-r1179488, accessed 16 April 2024.