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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Ruined Castle on the Island of ?Inistraech, Loch Awe, with Ben Cruachan Beyond 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Ruined Castle on the Island of ?Inistraech, Loch Awe, with Ben Cruachan Beyond’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
The Ruined Castle on the Island of ?Inistraech, Loch Awe, with Ben Cruachan Beyond 1801
D03010
Turner Bequest LVI 50
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Loch Awe’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘50’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 50’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. A ‘Scottish Pencil’ of this subject is Tate D03392 (Turner Bequest LVIII 13).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Ruined Castle on the Island of ?Inistraech, Loch Awe, with Ben Cruachan Beyond 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-the-ruined-castle-on-the-island-of-inistraech-loch-awe-with-r1179205, accessed 23 April 2024.