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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Killiecrankie 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Killiecrankie’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?Killiecrankie 1801
D03415
Turner Bequest LVIII 36
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 336 x 485 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 36’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The identification is Finberg’s;1 it does not appear to be correct. The subject is possibly connected with one of the composition sketches on Tate D08215 (Turner Bequest CXX B); see also Tate D03435 (Turner Bequest LVIII 56).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.156.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?Killiecrankie 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-killiecrankie-r1179815, accessed 25 April 2024.