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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Glencoe 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Glencoe’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Verso:
Two Sketches of Glencoe 1831
D26808
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 35a
Pencil on white wove paper, 186 x 116 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ?‘H[...]gon’ upper right, ‘Glen’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two sketches have been identified as Glencoe.1 The top sketch, labelled with an unidentified inscription, looks east towards the Notched Ridge (Aonach Eagach), with either the road along which Turner was travelling or the River Coe in the foreground. Beneath is a sketch inscribed ‘Glen’, which shows another view of the glen (presumably nearby) with the River Coe in the foreground.
For references to further sketches of Glencoe and more information about Turner’s visit to the area see folio 2 (D26750).

Thomas Ardill
April 2010

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner’s Journey from Oban to Inveraray, 1831’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [folios 5–6, 14].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Two Sketches of Glencoe 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-two-sketches-of-glencoe-r1135166, accessed 26 April 2024.