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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Head of Loch Tay, with Mountains Partly under Cloud, from the Northern Shore 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Verso:
The Head of Loch Tay, with Mountains Partly under Cloud, from the Northern Shore 1801
D03080
Turner Bequest LVI 85a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is continued on folio 88 recto opposite, and again on folio 89 recto (D03081, D03083; Turner Bequest LVI 86, 87).
Technical notes:
There is a 25 mm tear from the centre of the top edge.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Head of Loch Tay, with Mountains Partly under Cloud, from the Northern Shore 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-head-of-loch-tay-with-mountains-partly-under-cloud-from-r1179275, accessed 19 September 2024.