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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Banks of the Tilt at Blair Atholl 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Banks of the Tilt at Blair Atholl’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 119 Verso:
The Banks of the Tilt at Blair Atholl 1801
D03143
Turner Bequest LVI 117a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the pages turned horizontally, the subject is continued on folio 120 recto opposite (D03144; Turner Bequest LVI 118). It is one of a series of studies on the banks of the Rivers Garry and Tilt at Blair Atholl; see under folio 118 verso (D03141; Turner Bequest LVI 116a).
Turner scholar C.F. Bell considered this the principal source for the 1811 Liber Studiorum engraving Near Blair Athol Scotland (see the watercolour design, Tate D08134; Turner Bequest CXVII G; and Tate impressions A00970–A00971),1 but there seems to be no strong evidence for this.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Undated MS note by C.F. Bell (died 1966) in copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.148.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Banks of the Tilt at Blair Atholl 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-banks-of-the-tilt-at-blair-atholl-r1179338, accessed 19 April 2024.