Joseph Mallord William Turner

Ben Lomond, ?Twilight

1801

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Scotch Lakes Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 114 × 184 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D41244
Turner Bequest LVI 38a

Catalogue entry

The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry for page ‘38a. Ben Lomond’1 would normally imply the verso of folio 38, another Ben Lomond watercolour bound opposite this one (D41243, the verso of D41242, which Finberg numbered LVI 38).2 However, in this case he initially appears to have intended the ‘a’ suffix to signify an addendum number for the present work, which had been extracted for display. In a memorandum dated 14 January 1914, he noted: ‘sketch on back of p.38 should really be 38a, & what is printed as 38a, i.e. Ben Lomond, should be 38d’.3
For further discussion, see the technical notes in the sketchbook’s Introduction.
1
Finberg 1909, vol.I, p.145.
2
Ibid., p.144.
3
MS note by Finberg in interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, opposite p. 144.
Technical notes:
The page is faded from prolonged exposure.

Matthew Imms
May 2013

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