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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Ben Lomond from Ben Arthur 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Ben Lomond from Ben Arthur’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Verso:
?Ben Lomond from Ben Arthur 1831
D26612
Turner Bequest CCLXX 89a
Pencil on white wove paper, 201 x 125 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across this page and folio 90 (D26613) is a rough and faint sketch of distant mountains. Although there is very little to go on in this sketch the distant peak at the upper centre of this page resembles Ben Lomond as seen from the summit of Ben Arthur (the Cobbler), with the southern shoulder of the rocky summit at the left. There is a comparable sketch of the same view (though from the north side of the summit) on folio 33 (D26500).

Thomas Ardill
June 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘?Ben Lomond from Ben Arthur 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-ben-lomond-from-ben-arthur-r1135046, accessed 18 April 2024.