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 Inveraray from the West 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inveraray from the West’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Verso:
Inveraray from the West 1801
D41247
Turner Bequest LVI 38b
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. Inveraray, on the north shore of Loch Fyne, and its environs, studies of which occupy pages of this book from here to folio 43 recto (D02994; Turner Bequest LVI 41), are the subject of several colour studies made in preparation for projected watercolours after the tour; see Tate D03632–D03635 (Turner Bequest LX A, B, C, D).
This page does not bear a stamped Turner Bequest number; for the issues confusing the numbering of this and the preceding leaf, see the technical notes in the sketchbook’s Introduction.
Technical notes:
The page was damaged by prolonged exposure. Finberg noted that it was withdrawn from the Third Loan Collection in September 1905 ‘on account of the blue fading’.1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.145.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inveraray from the West 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-inveraray-from-the-west-r1179183, accessed 08 May 2024.