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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road with Trees near Loch Long, with Ben Arthur Above 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Road with Trees near Loch Long, with Ben Arthur Above’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Road with Trees near Loch Long, with Ben Arthur Above 1801
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Turner Bequest LVIII 51
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 434 x 296 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 51’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Finberg noted,1 a coloured sketch of the composition is in the 1801 Tummel Bridge sketchbook (Tate D03290; Turner Bequest LVII 7a); Tate D03291 (Turner Bequest LVII 8) has a slightly varied version of the same subject.
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See Finberg 1909, I, p.158
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Road with Trees near Loch Long, with Ben Arthur Above 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-road-with-trees-near-loch-long-with-ben-arthur-above-r1179778, accessed 19 April 2024.