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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Foyers near the Falls 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Foyers near the Falls’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
The River Foyers near the Falls 1831
D27032
Turner Bequest CCLXXVI 39a
Pencil on off-white laid writing paper, 150 x 180 mm irregular
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook turned to the left from the conventional orientation, David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have suggested that this view of hills and a stream must be (like the sketches on adjacent pages of the book) of Foyers on the eastern shore of Loch Ness.1 The Falls of Foyers, of which there are over twenty sketches in this book (see folio 40 verso; D27034), are not shown in the sketch, but the fast moving stream flowing from the right of the sketch to the foreground must be the River Foyers, probably upstream of the waterfalls.

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, ‘The River Foyers near the Falls 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-the-river-foyers-near-the-falls-r1135397, accessed 26 April 2024.