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 The Mountains of Killicrankie from the Road to Blair Atholl 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Mountains of Killicrankie from the Road to Blair Atholl’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 124 Recto:
The Mountains of Killicrankie from the Road to Blair Atholl 1801
D03152
Turner Bequest LVI 122
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘mott | 97’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blair Athol L towards Kilicranky’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘122’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 122’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 123 verso opposite (D03151; Turner Bequest LVI 121a).
The artist Jeremy Yates pointed out that this drawing is the basis for the large watercolour study Tate D04179 (Turner Bequest LXX b).1
1
Personal communication.
Technical notes:
There are slight splashes of pale grey colour at the bottom of the page.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Mountains of Killicrankie from the Road to 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-mountains-of-killicrankie-from-the-road-to-blair-atholl-r1179347, accessed 25 April 2024.