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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1831 > Sound of Mull (?) No. 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Knoydar Peninsula with Beinn Sgrutheall in the Distance from Across Loch Nevis 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Knoydar Peninsula with Beinn Sgrutheall in the Distance from Across Loch Nevis’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Knoydar Peninsula with Beinn Sgrutheall in the Distance from Across Loch Nevis 1831
D26962
Turner Bequest CCLXXV 4a
Pencil on white wove paper, 91 x 153 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ?‘Nevis’ upper centre
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXV – 4a’ top left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The saddleback-shaped mountain behind the promontory at the centre of this rather slight sketch has been identified as the mountain Beinn Sgritheall on the shore of Loch Hourn, as seen from the south-west.1 The view is therefore from the Sound of Sleat, looking north-east across the mouth of Loch Nevis to the Knoydar promontory, with part of the Isle of Skye at the right. Turner made this sketch as he approached Advasar by Steamboat. The sketch on the reverse of this page (folio 4; D26961) may look into the mouth of Loch Nevis from nearby.

Thomas Ardill
March 2010

1
Identified by David Wallace–Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner on the Isle of Skye 1831’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [folio 8].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Knoydar Peninsula with Beinn Sgrutheall in the Distance from Across Loch Nevis 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-knoydar-peninsula-with-beinn-sgrutheall-in-the-distance-from-r1135303, accessed 18 May 2024.