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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Mary's Loch, Selkirkshire 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Mary's Loch, Selkirkshire’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
St Mary’s Loch, Selkirkshire 1834
D26141
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 24a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This quick sketch depicting the outline of hills with a bay of water in the foreground is one of a group of sketches made at St Mary’s Loch in Selkirkshire: folios 24–28 (D26140–D26148). The view was likely to have been taken from the road beneath Capper Law, at the north end of the loch between St Mary’s Churchyard and the settlement of Cappercleuch. The bay in the foreground is where the Megget Water flows into the loch, with Bridge End Hill above it. Most of the sketches of the loch show a similar view.
For the context of Turner’s visit to St Mary’s Loch, see folio 24 (D26130) and Edinburgh sketchbook 1834 Introduction.

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘St Mary’s Loch, Selkirkshire 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2011, 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-st-marys-loch-selkirkshire-r1136069, accessed 25 April 2024.