Joseph Mallord William Turner

Loch Long, Morning

c.1801

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Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda (Santiago, Chile): Turner Watercolours

Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Watercolours Derived from the 1801 Scottish Tour
Medium
Gouache, graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 352 x 485 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D03637
Turner Bequest LX F

Catalogue entry

Compare the evening view of the same subject, Tate D03638 (Turner Bequest LX G).
Technical notes:
Except at the edges, the sheet is severely faded. Finberg note that when it was returned to the Turner Bequest holdings (then at the National Gallery) from the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1908, it had been ‘considerably injured by undue exposure to the light.’1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

Revised by Matthew Imms
March 2015

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.161.

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