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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

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 26 Recto:
St Mary’s Loch, Selkirkshire 1834
D26144
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘26’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 26’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a series of very similar views of St Mary’s Loch in Selkirkshire: folios 24–28 (D26140–D26148). From the road to the north of the loch near St Mary’s Churchyard we look south down the length of the loch, with Cappercleuch and the outflow of the Megget Water at the right. Having made this sketch, Turner flipped over the page and drew an almost identical one on folio 27 (D26146).
See folio 24 (D2640) for further information.

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-r1136072, accessed 23 April 2024.