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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Road along the Western Shore of Loch Lomond, with the Tablet to Colonel Lawless on a Rock, and Ben Lomond in the Right Distance beyond the Loch 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Road along the Western Shore of Loch Lomond, with the Tablet to Colonel Lawless on a Rock, and Ben Lomond in the Right Distance beyond the Loch’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Road along the Western Shore of Loch Lomond, with the Tablet to Colonel Lawless on a Rock, and Ben Lomond in the Right Distance beyond the Loch 1801
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Turner Bequest LVIII 1
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 345 x 492 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 1’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is based on a drawing in the 1801 Tummel Bridge sketchbook (Tate D03282–D03283; Turner Bequest LVII 3a–4). Colonel Lawless who is commemorated in the tablet let into the rock at the left was presumably a casualty of the 1745 Jacobite uprising under Prince Charles Stuart, ‘the Young Pretender’, who was defeated by English troops under the Duke of Cumberland at Culloden in the following year.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Road along the Western Shore of Loch Lomond, with the Tablet to Colonel Lawless on a Rock, and Ben Lomond in the Right Distance beyond the Loch 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-road-along-the-western-shore-of-loch-lomond-with-the-r1179772, accessed 25 April 2024.