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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Ness from the top of the Falls of Foyers 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch Ness from the top of the Falls of Foyers’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
Loch Ness from the top of the Falls of Foyers 1831
D27013
Turner Bequest CCLXXVI 26a
Pencil on off-white laid writing paper, 150 x 179 mm irregular
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn from the top of the Falls of Foyers, this sketch looks north-west down the falls and along the River Foyers to Loch Ness.1 Two further sketches looking towards the loch are on folios 23 and 42 (D27006, D27037). Turner made around twenty sketches of the falls in this sketchbook (see folio 40 verso; D27034 for references).
At the bottom left of the page (drawn with the book turned to the left) is the continuation of a sketch of Boleskine Burial Ground from folio 27 (D27014), here showing a tomb.

Thomas Ardill
April 2010

1
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 the top of the Falls of Foyers 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-the-top-of-the-falls-of-foyers-r1135378, accessed 25 April 2024.