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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Scotch Lakes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains of Glen Orchy from Loch Awe 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains of Glen Orchy from Loch Awe’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
Mountains of Glen Orchy from Loch Awe 1801
D03002
Turner Bequest LVI 46
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Loch Awe’ bottom left ‘L Aw’ towards bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘46’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 46’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Other views around Loch Awe appear on adjacent pages.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Mountains of Glen Orchy from Loch Awe 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-mountains-of-glen-orchy-from-loch-awe-r1179197, accessed 26 April 2024.