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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bay and Mountain, ?Camunsunary Bay on Loch Scavaig, Skye 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bay and Mountain, ?Camunsunary Bay on Loch Scavaig, Skye’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Verso:
Bay and Mountain, ?Camunsunary Bay on Loch Scavaig, Skye 1831
D26569
Turner Bequest CCLXX 67a
Pencil on white wove paper, 201 x 125 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of a bay with mountains has not been identified with any certainty. However, it does bear a resemblance to the sketches of Camasunary Bay on Loch Scavaig, Skye on folio 69 (D26572), suggesting that this is a possible location.

Thomas Ardill
June 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Bay and Mountain, ?Camunsunary Bay on Loch Scavaig, Skye 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, 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-bay-and-mountain-camunsunary-bay-on-loch-scavaig-skye-r1135003, accessed 19 April 2024.