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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Ard with Ben Lomond 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Loch Ard with Ben Lomond’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Loch Ard with Ben Lomond 1834
D26738
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 38
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 184 x 119 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘L A’ upper centre ‘L Ard’ centre
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘38’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXII 38’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Two inscriptions on this page point towards Loch Ard as the subject of these five sketches.1 The peak of Ben Lomond is easily identifiable in the third and fourth sketches from the top, and less so in the second sketch, indicating that this is a westerly view across the loch from the eastern side. The sketch at the top of the page, and perhaps also inverted at the bottom of the page, may be a south-westerly view across the loch from the same place. Sketches of Ben Lomond from Loch Ard continue on folio 22 (D26737; CCLXXII 37a); see folio 3 verso (D26677; CCLXXII 6) for references of further views of Loch Ard.

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

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

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Loch Ard with Ben Lomond 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-ard-with-ben-lomond-r1136408, accessed 25 April 2024.