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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Loch Fyne: Looking towards Clachan Bridge at the Head of the Loch from Cairndow 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Loch Fyne: Looking towards Clachan Bridge at the Head of the Loch from Cairndow 1801
D03305
Turner Bequest LVII 15
Pencil on white cartridge paper prepared with a grey–buff ground, 149 x 118 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVII – 15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 14 verso opposite (D03304). As Finberg noted,1 a ‘Scottish Pencil’ of this subject is Tate D03386 (Turner Bequest LVIII 7).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.151.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Loch Fyne: Looking towards Clachan Bridge at the Head of the Loch from Cairndow 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-loch-fyne-looking-towards-clachan-bridge-at-the-head-of-the-r1179503, accessed 19 April 2024.