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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1831 > Sound of Mull (?) No. 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Hills, Perhaps the Cuillins from Near Arisaig 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Hills, Perhaps the Cuillins from Near Arisaig’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Distant Hills, Perhaps the Cuillins from Near Arisaig 1831
D41022
Pencil on white wove paper, 153 x 91 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXV – 5a’ top right inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although Finberg stamped this page with its Turner Bequest number he omitted it from the inventory,1 and subsequent scholars have regarded the page as blank.2 The page, however, does contain a small and slight sketch of rocks or distant hills. Although the sketch is too rough to make identification very certain, it is likely to show a view of distant hills, probably the Cuillins on Skye, from around Arisaig, as this is the subject of sketches on folios 5 and 6 (D26963, D26964).

Thomas Ardill
March 2010

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.880.
2
Identified by David Wallace–Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner on the Isle of Skye 1831’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [folio 31], CCLXXV 5a, as ‘Blank’.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Distant Hills, Perhaps the Cuillins from Near Arisaig 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-distant-hills-perhaps-the-cuillins-from-near-arisaig-r1135305, accessed 19 April 2024.