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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking towards the Head of Loch Fyne from Dunderave 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking towards the Head of Loch Fyne from Dunderave’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Looking towards the Head of Loch Fyne from Dunderave 1801
D03309
Turner Bequest LVII 17
Pencil on white cartridge paper prepared with a grey–buff ground, 149 x 118 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVII – 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 16 verso opposite (D03308). As Finberg noted,1 a ‘Scottish Pencil’ of this subject is Tate D03387 (Turner Bequest LVIII 8); see also the finished watercolour of 1815 in the British Museum, London.2

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.151.
2
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.340 no.351, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking towards the Head of Loch Fyne from Dunderave 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-towards-the-head-of-loch-fyne-from-dunderave-r1179507, accessed 25 April 2024.