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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > The 'Scottish Pencils' > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inveraray from An Otir 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inveraray from An Otir’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inveraray from An Otir 1801
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Turner Bequest LVIII 10
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 340 x 490 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 10’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A large colour study of this subject is Tate D03641 (Turner Bequest LX J), and a finished watercolour is in Manchester Art Gallery.1
Inveraray town was completely rebuilt on a new site by the Duke of Argyll in the late eighteenth century. Robert Milne’s Parish Church, begun in 1792, can be seen nearing completion in the centre of Turner’s drawing. Further to the right, behind the massive gaol building, are the towers of Inveraray Castle. There is a coloured study of the town from a different viewpoint in the 1801 Scotch Lakes sketchbook (Tate D41247; Turner Bequest LVI 39b).
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.340 no.352, reproduced; see Finberg 1909, I, p.154.
Technical notes:
There are splashes of blue–green ink.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inveraray from An Otir 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-inveraray-from-an-otir-r1179786, accessed 26 April 2024.