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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ben Lomond from Loch Lomond 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ben Lomond from Loch Lomond’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Ben Lomond from Loch Lomond 1831
D26649
Turner Bequest CCLXXI 16
Pencil on off-white laid writing paper, 101 x 158 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘16’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXI – 16’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are two sketches of Ben Lomond on this page, both made from the deck of a steamboat on the loch.1 In the top sketch it is shown at the left of the picture and is viewed from due west, while it is shown at the right of the bottom sketch where it is seen from the south-west. Ben Lomond is also included in a sketch on folio 14 (D26645). For references to further sketches of Loch Lomond in the present sketchbook see folio 17 verso (D26652).

Thomas Ardill
October 2009

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner Round the Clyde and In Islay – 1831’, 1991, Tate catalogue files, folio 9.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Ben Lomond from 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-ben-lomond-from-loch-lomond-r1135086, accessed 19 September 2024.