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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains round the Head of Loch Lomond, Partly Hidden by Cloud 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains round the Head of Loch Lomond, Partly Hidden by Cloud’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Mountains round the Head of Loch Lomond, Partly Hidden by Cloud 1801
D03281
Turner Bequest LVII 3
Pencil and scraping–out on white cartridge paper prepared with a grey–buff ground, 118 x 149 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LVII – 3’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. A ‘Scottish Pencil’ of this view is Tate D03382 (Turner Bequest LVIII 3), identified by Finberg as Loch Long with Ben Arthur; he also considered the drawing on folios 6 verso–7 recto (D03288–D03289) to show that subject.1 The connection is tenuous, to say the least.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.151.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Mountains round the Head of Loch Lomond, Partly Hidden by Cloud 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-round-the-head-of-loch-lomond-partly-hidden-by-r1179479, accessed 26 April 2024.