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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River Oich, Fort Augustus 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Oich, Fort Augustus’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
River Oich, Fort Augustus 1831
D26991
Turner Bequest CCLXXVI 15a
Pencil on off-white laid writing paper, 150 x 180 mm irregular
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across the top half of the page is a view north-east from Fort Augustus.1 We look along the River Oich towards the stone three-arched Old River Oich Bridge (only one arch of which still stands). To the right of the bridge is Inveroich House on Inveroich Point between the river and the Caledonian Canal. Here the river and canal flow into Loch Ness, which at the southern end is bordered by large hills. More of the town is seen in a similar view on folio 18 (D26996).
At the bottom of the page is a sketch of a ridge of hills, perhaps those on the eastern side of Loch Ness. At the centre of the page is a slight and obscure sketch that may depict rooftops.
For references to further sketches of Fort Augustus, see folio 18.

Thomas Ardill
April 2010

1
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, ‘River Oich, Fort Augustus 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-river-oich-fort-augustus-r1135356, accessed 18 May 2024.