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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Landing Place at the East End of Loch Katrine 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landing Place at the East End of Loch Katrine’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Landing Place at the East End of Loch Katrine 1831
D26488
Turner Bequest CCLXX 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 201 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘R | R’ centre left
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘27’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXX – 27’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The large mounds of rock are the most impressive feature of this sketch of the shore at the east end of Loch Katrine, and Turner has carefully indicated their shape and character with short lines and hatching only, rather than tracing their outlines as he did for the profile of the hills beyond. This is the ‘landing’ place that Turner marked on his sketch on folio 26 (D26486), and here a boat is drawn up on the beach. The present view looks north, so the mountain in the distance is Ben A’an. Turner made a view looking in the opposite direction on folio 28 (D26490).
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

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Landing Place at the East End of 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-landing-place-at-the-east-end-of-loch-katrine-r1134922, accessed 09 May 2024.