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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Mountains 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Mountains’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Distant Mountains 1831
D26454
Turner Bequest CCLXX 10
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 201 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘10’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXX – 10’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The profile of this mountain is recognisable as Ben Lomond, and as David Wallace-Hadrill has suggested, the view is likely to be from near Luss on the western shore of Loch Lomond.1 As the village is not visible at the left of the sketch, it is likely that Turner made the view shortly after leaving Luss during a steamboat tour of the loch and others nearby (see folio 23; D26480).
See folio 23 for further references to sketches of Loch Lomond, and see the Tour of Scotland for Scott’s Poetical Works 1831 Tour Introduction for information about Turner’s route around the Scottish lakes.

Thomas Ardill
October 2009

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘CCLXX “Stirling” Checklist’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Distant Mountains 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-mountains-r1134888, accessed 19 April 2024.