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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Head of Loch Lomond 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
The Head of Loch Lomond 1831
D26644
Turner Bequest CCLXXI 13a
Pencil on off-white laid writing paper, 101 x 158 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLXII – 13a’ top left descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have identified these two sketches as likely to be of the Head of Loch Lomond.1 The top sketch is certainly likely to be of the north end of Loch Lomond, as it closely resembles a sketch across two pages of the Stirling and the West sketchbook which Turner inscribed ‘Hd of Lo’ (Tate D26606–D26607; Turner Bequest CCLXX 86a–87). The sketch at the bottom of the page may also be of the head or another part of Loch Lomond.
For references to further sketches of Loch Lomond in the present sketchbook see folio 17 verso (D26652) for references.

Thomas Ardill
October 2009

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner Round the Clyde and In Islay – 1831’, 1991, Tate catalogue files, folio 8.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Head of Loch Lomond 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-the-head-of-loch-lomond-r1135081, accessed 29 March 2024.