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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Looking up at Ben Arthur from Glen Croe 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Looking up at Ben Arthur from Glen Croe’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
?Looking up at Ben Arthur from Glen Croe 1801
D03303
Turner Bequest LVII 14
Pencil on white cartridge paper prepared with a buff–grey ground, 149 x 118 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘14’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVII – 14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 13 verso opposite (D03302). For its general setting, see under folio 4 verso (D03284). As Finberg noted,1 a ‘Scottish Pencil’ of this subject is Tate D03384 (Turner Bequest LVIII 5).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.151.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?Looking up at Ben Arthur from Glen Croe 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-looking-up-at-ben-arthur-from-glen-croe-r1179501, accessed 24 April 2024.