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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Ness from Foyers Bay 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch Ness from Foyers Bay’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Loch Ness from Foyers Bay 1831
D27006
Turner Bequest CCLXXVI 23
Pencil on off-white laid writing paper, 180 x 150 mm irregular
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘23’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXVI 23’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have identified this sketch as Loch Ness from the Falls of Foyers on the eastern shore of the loch.1 However, unlike views from the top of the falls (e.g. folio 26 verso; D07013), this sketch does not seem to have been made from so far above water level. It is therefore likely to have been made from the wooded Foyers Bay. The shape of the hill on the western shore of Loch Ness is recognisable as Meall Fuar-mhonaidh.
For references to further sketches of the Falls of Foyers, see folio 40 verso (D27034).

Thomas Ardill
April 2010

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David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner’s 1831 Sketchbook T.B. CCLXXVI Fort Augustus’, [circa 1992–3], Tate catalogue files, [unpaginated].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Loch Ness from Foyers Bay 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-loch-ness-from-foyers-bay-r1135371, accessed 19 September 2024.