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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Katrine from Stronachlachar Pier 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch Katrine from Stronachlachar Pier’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
Loch Katrine from Stronachlachar Pier 1834
D26714
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 26
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 117 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘NE’ top right
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘26’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXII 26’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the book inverted are two sketches of the view eastward along Loch Katrine.1 Although Turner has inscribed the top sketch ‘NE’, it in fact looks east along the length of the loch to the pointed Ben A’an. The sketch beneath depicts the view across the water to the mountainous north shore of Loch Katrine at the left, and the southern shore with Ben Venue at the right. Ben A’an, which should be at the centre of the sketch, is less distinct. In the foreground is Stronachlachar pier. Turner made another sketch of Loch Katrine from the pier on folio 40 (D26676; CCLXXII 5a).
For a full list of the sketches Turner made in the Trossachs, see the Loch Ard sketchbook Introduction.

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, Vol.10 No.2, p.27.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Loch Katrine from Stronachlachar Pier 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-katrine-from-stronachlachar-pier-r1136398, accessed 26 April 2024.