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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Ben Lomond from the West 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Ben Lomond from the West’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Distant View of Ben Lomond from the West 1834
D26680
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 7a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have identified this sketch as ‘a road in the Trossachs near Loch Ard, with the westward peak of Ben Lomond in the background.’1 Perhaps the most likely vantage point would be Duke’s Pass (the road between Loch Ard and Aberfoyle), which rises above Loch Ard and provides a view toward Ben Lomond at various points, such as this one.
For further views in the Trossachs, see 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, ‘Distant View of Ben Lomond from the West 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-distant-view-of-ben-lomond-from-the-west-r1136441, accessed 24 April 2024.