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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 'Loch Venachar' 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘'Loch Venachar'’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Verso:
‘Loch Venachar’ 1834
D26675
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 5
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Loch Venachar’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inscribed ‘Loch Venachar’ by Turner, this view of the loch is probably from the west with Ben Ledi at the left. At the top of the page Turner has made a separate sketch of distant hills. There is another view of the loch on folio 41 (D26672; CCLXXII 3a).
For a full list of Turner’s sketches of the Trossachs, see the Loch Ard sketchbook Introduction.

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘‘Loch Venachar’ 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-venachar-r1136444, accessed 24 April 2024.