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 Mountains at the Top of Glen Lochy, Looking East 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains at the Top of Glen Lochy, Looking East’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Mountains at the Top of Glen Lochy, Looking East 1801
D03042
Turner Bequest LVI 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘C Wi | 17’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Tin-drum’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘66’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 67 verso opposite (D03041; Turner Bequest LVI 65a).
Technical notes:
There is a 20 mm tear at the centre of the top edge of the leaf.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Mountains at the Top of Glen Lochy, Looking East 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-at-the-top-of-glen-lochy-looking-east-r1179237, accessed 23 April 2024.