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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Entrance to Glen Lyon 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Entrance to Glen Lyon’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?The Entrance to Glen Lyon 1801
D03399
Turner Bequest LVIII 20
Pencil and gouache, and some charcoal on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 342 x 491 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 20’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The identification of the subject is uncertain. Finberg suggested with some confidence that it is Glen Lyon,1 but Turner saw only the eastern end of the Glen; see the Introduction to the 1801 Scotch Lakes sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest LVI). This may be a view near MacGregor’s Leap. Finberg also identified Tate D03400 (Turner Bequest LVIII 21) as ‘Glen Lyon’; it is here tentatively proposed as a view in Glen Dochart.
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See Finberg 1909, I, p.155.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?The Entrance to Glen Lyon 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-the-entrance-to-glen-lyon-r1179802, accessed 25 April 2024.