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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking South-East from the Summit of Ben Arthur 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking South-East from the Summit of Ben Arthur’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
Looking South-East from the Summit of Ben Arthur 1831
D26555
Turner Bequest CCLXX 60a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 201 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view has been identified as looking south-east from the summit of Ben Arthur.1 The view is framed at the right by the shoulder of the rocky summit of the mountain, and we look over Loch Long to Loch Lomond and Ben Lomond. Turner made another sketch from the mountain’s summit on folio 33 of this sketchbook (D26500), and continued to sketch as he descended the eastern slopes of the mountain towards Loch Long (folios 59–61; D26552–D26556).

Thomas Ardill
November 2009

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner Round the Clyde and in Islay – 1831’, 1991, Tate catalogue files, folio 6 and ‘checklist’.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Looking South-East from the Summit of Ben Arthur 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-south-east-from-the-summit-of-ben-arthur-r1134989, accessed 20 September 2024.