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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Strath Fillan, with Ben More, Ben A'an and Cruach Ardrain Beyond 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Strath Fillan, with Ben More, Ben A'an and Cruach Ardrain Beyond’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Verso:
Strath Fillan, with Ben More, Ben A’an and Cruach Ardrain Beyond 1801
D03047
Turner Bequest LVI 68a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘C Wi | 17’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject in continued on folio 71 recto opposite (D03048; Turner Bequest LVI 69). The grand composition of Ben More (1174 metres) and its companion peaks attracted Turner over a number of pages; see under folio 66 verso (D03039; Turner Bequest LVI 64a).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Strath Fillan, with Ben More, Ben A’an and Cruach Ardrain 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-strath-fillan-with-ben-more-ben-aan-and-cruach-ardrain-r1179242, accessed 25 April 2024.