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 More, Ben A'an and Cruach Ardrain from near Tyndrum 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ben More, Ben A'an and Cruach Ardrain from near Tyndrum’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
Ben More, Ben A’an and Cruach Ardrain from near Tyndrum 1801
D03040
Turner Bequest LVI 65
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Kawachardan | High stack’ bottom centre
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘65’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 65’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is continued on folio 66 verso opposite (D03039; Turner Bequest LVI 64a). Turner’s ‘Kawarchardan’ is presumably Cruach Ardrain, a peak to the south west of Ben A’an. A ‘Scottish Pencil’ of this subject is Tate D03396 (Turner Bequest LVIII 17).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Ben More, Ben A’an and Cruach Ardrain from near Tyndrum 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-more-ben-aan-and-cruach-ardrain-from-near-tyndrum-r1179235, accessed 26 April 2024.