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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views along a Loch 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views along a Loch’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Two Views along a Loch 1831
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Turner Bequest CCLXXVI 4a
Pencil on off-white laid writing paper, 184 x 150 mm irregular
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top of the page, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, is a sketch of a view looking along a loch with heavy clouds and diagonal lines that probably represent heavy sheets of rain. Following the order of sketches in this book (which are fairly consistent with Turner’s journey north up the Caledonian Canal to Inverness), it is likely that this is a view up Loch Lochy around Gairlochy, although David Wallace-Hadrill has suggested that it may depict a sunset, in which case it is more likely to be a view west along Loch Eil from around Corpach.1 The second sketch is also a view along a loch.

Thomas Ardill
April 2010

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David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner’s 1831 Sketchbook T.B. CCLXXVI Fort Augustus’, [circa 1992–3], Tate catalogue files, [unpaginated].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Two Views along a Loch 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-two-views-along-a-loch-r1135335, accessed 18 May 2024.