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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The River Tay North of Dunkeld, Looking North towards Pitlochry 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?The River Tay North of Dunkeld, Looking North towards Pitlochry 1801
D03436
Turner Bequest LVIII 57
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 346 x 481 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 57’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view was tentatively identified by art historian Francina Irwin as the western end of the Vale of Earne,1 but the width of the river here suggests a more substantial waterway.
1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.159.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?The River Tay North of Dunkeld, Looking North towards Pitlochry 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-river-tay-north-of-dunkeld-looking-north-towards-r1179819, accessed 20 September 2024.