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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ben More from the East, Looking along Glen Dochart 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ben More from the East, Looking along Glen Dochart’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Ben More from the East, Looking along Glen Dochart 1801
D03397
Turner Bequest LVIII 18
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 362 x 475 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 18’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Finberg noted,1 this is based on a drawing in the 1801 Scotch Lakes sketchbook (Tate D03069–D03070; Turner Bequest LVI 79a–80). See also Tate D03398, D03402 and D03406 (Turner Bequest LVIII 19, 23, 27).
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See Finberg 1909, I, p.155.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Ben More from the East, Looking along Glen Dochart 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-ben-more-from-the-east-looking-along-glen-dochart-r1179794, accessed 25 April 2024.