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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking East Along Loch Katrine 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking East Along Loch Katrine’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Looking East Along Loch Katrine 1831
D26482
Turner Bequest CCLXX 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 201 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘24’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXX – 24’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Having arrived at Stronachlachar on Loch Katrine (see folio 22 verso; D26470), Turner boarded a boat which took him to the east end of the loch (folio 27; D26488). About halfway up the loch the artist made a sketch at the inside of the page which depicts the view looking east along the loch, at the point where it narrows slightly and turns to the south.1 The mountain of Ben Venue can be seen at the top right and is labelled ‘B V’. As he approached the loch’s east end, Turner inverted the sketchbook to make a sketch of the head of the loch, with Craig Leven rock at the centre of the picture.
For more information about Turner’s visit to Loch Katrine and references to further sketches of it, see folio 47 (D26528).

Thomas Ardill
October 2009

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner Round the Clyde and in Islay – 1831’, 1991, Tate catalogue files, folio 3.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Looking East Along Loch Katrine 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-looking-east-along-loch-katrine-r1134916, accessed 26 April 2024.