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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch and Mountains 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch and Mountains’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Loch and Mountains 1831
D26654
Turner Bequest CCLXXI 18a
Pencil on off-white laid writing paper, 101 x 158 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXI – 18a’ top left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across this and the opposite sketchbook page (folio 19; D26655) are rough sketches of hilly shorelines. Presumably sketched from the deck of a steamboat, there are numerous places that these sketches could depict such as Loch Lomond, which is depicted on the reverse of this page (folio 18; D26653), or the Clyde Estuary, which is depicted on folio 19 verso (D26656).

Thomas Ardill
July 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Loch and Mountains 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-loch-and-mountains-r1135091, accessed 05 April 2026.