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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Scotch Lakes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ben Lomond, ?Twilight 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ben Lomond, ?Twilight’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Ben Lomond, ?Twilight 1801
D41244
Turner Bequest LVI 38a
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Blind-stamped bottom centre of image with Turner Bequest monogram
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 38b’ (sic) bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry for page ‘38a. Ben Lomond’1 would normally imply the verso of folio 38, another Ben Lomond watercolour bound opposite this one (D41243, the verso of D41242, which Finberg numbered LVI 38).2 However, in this case he initially appears to have intended the ‘a’ suffix to signify an addendum number for the present work, which had been extracted for display. In a memorandum dated 14 January 1914, he noted: ‘sketch on back of p.38 should really be 38a, & what is printed as 38a, i.e. Ben Lomond, should be 38d’.3
For further discussion, see the technical notes in the sketchbook’s Introduction.
1
Finberg 1909, vol.I, p.145.
2
Ibid., p.144.
3
MS note by Finberg in interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, opposite p. 144.
Technical notes:
The page is faded from prolonged exposure.

Matthew Imms
May 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ben Lomond, ?Twilight 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ben-lomond-twilight-r1179180, accessed 25 April 2024.