Joseph Mallord William Turner

Loch Leven from North Ballachulish

1831

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Staffa Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 116 × 186 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D26754
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 4

Catalogue entry

This sketch has been identified as a view looking east across Loch Leven.1 With the sun low in the sky it must have been made in the early morning. The view is probably from North Ballachulish, as in the sketch on the reverse on this page (folio 4 verso; D26755).
For references to further views made at Ballachulish, see folio 2 (D26750).

Thomas Ardill
March 2010

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner’s Journey from Oban to Inverness, 1831’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [folios 4, 12].

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