Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Road along the Western Shore of Loch Lomond, with the Tablet to Colonel Lawless on a Rock, and Ben Lomond in the Right Distance beyond the Loch

1801

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
The ‘Scottish Pencils’
Medium
Gouache and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 345 × 492 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D03380
Turner Bequest LVIII 1

Catalogue entry

This is based on a drawing in the 1801 Tummel Bridge sketchbook (Tate D03282–D03283; Turner Bequest LVII 3a–4). Colonel Lawless who is commemorated in the tablet let into the rock at the left was presumably a casualty of the 1745 Jacobite uprising under Prince Charles Stuart, ‘the Young Pretender’, who was defeated by English troops under the Duke of Cumberland at Culloden in the following year.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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