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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River or Loch, with Boats and Mountains - River Tay 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River or Loch, with Boats and Mountains - River Tay’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
River or Loch, with Boats and Mountains – River Tay 1834
D26720
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 29
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 119 x 184 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘29’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXII 29’ top left inverted
Inscribed in pencil by an unknown hand ‘[...]4’ top right inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts shipping on a river with mountains on the far shore. It appears on the back of a page with a sketch made on the River Tay near Kinfauns Castle, which includes a boat on its continuing page (folios 28 verso–29; D26723, D26721; CCLXXII 30a, 29a). It is therefore likely that the four or five boats seen here are also on the River Tay.

Thomas Ardill
February 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘River or Loch, with Boats and Mountains – River Tay 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-river-or-loch-with-boats-and-mountains-river-tay-r1136423, accessed 19 September 2024.