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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ben Venue, From Across Loch Katrine 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ben Venue, From Across Loch Katrine’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Verso:
Ben Venue, From Across Loch Katrine 1831
D26505
Turner Bequest CCLXX 35a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 201 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ben Venue is seen here from the north-east corner of Loch Katrine. From the lower slopes of Ben A’an, seen at the left of the sketch, we look across the loch to the mountain with Ellen’s Island (Eilean Molach) in front of it. The sketch is one of a number of depictions of Ben Venue in this sketchbook made from around this point in preparation to Turner’s watercolour of Loch Katrine circa 1832 (British Museum),1 which was engraved to illustrate volume 8 of Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works, The Lady of the Lake in 1834. There is a very similar view on folio 36 (D26506). (See folio 47; D26528 for details and references).

Thomas Ardill
October 2009

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.1084 no.1084.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Ben Venue, From Across 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-ben-venue-from-across-loch-katrine-r1134939, accessed 24 April 2024.