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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inverness from Across the River Ness 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inverness from Across the River Ness’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Inverness from Across the River Ness 1831
D27057
Turner Bequest CCLXXVII 7a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘7’ lower centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows a view of Inverness from the western shore of the River Ness with the ‘7’ arches of the old Ness Bridge, the steeples of the Old High Church (far left) and the Tollbooth. In the foreground is a rough depiction of a figure in a small boat (or perhaps two small boats). Turner incorporated this detail in the foreground of his watercolour of Inverness circa 1833 (Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, The Highland Council),1 the composition of which was based on the sketch on folio 2 (D27047).

Thomas Ardill
April 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, pp.433–4 no.1128.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Inverness from Across the River Ness 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-inverness-from-across-the-river-ness-r1135423, accessed 26 April 2024.