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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > The 'Scottish Pencils' > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Loch Tummel, Looking East towards Ben y Vrackie and Ben Uan 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Loch Tummel, Looking East towards Ben y Vrackie and Ben Uan’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?Loch Tummel, Looking East towards Ben y Vrackie and Ben Uan 1801
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Turner Bequest LVIII 32
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 342 x 485 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 32’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Art historian Francina Irwin has suggested the view is farther north, at Blair Atholl.
Technical notes:
The sheet was damaged and ragged along the bottom and left edges and has been made good.
Verso:
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mr Goodwin’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?Loch Tummel, Looking East towards Ben y Vrackie and Ben Uan 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-loch-tummel-looking-east-towards-ben-y-vrackie-and-ben-uan-r1179809, accessed 23 April 2024.