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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Rocky Pass between Mountains: ?Glen Croe with the Slopes of Ben Arthur: Beinn an Lochain 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Rocky Pass between Mountains: ?Glen Croe with the Slopes of Ben Arthur: Beinn an Lochain’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
A Rocky Pass between Mountains: ?Glen Croe with the Slopes of Ben Arthur: Beinn an Lochain 1801
D03297
Turner Bequest LVII 11
Pencil with a white gouache on white cartridge paper prepared with a buff–grey ground, 149 x 118 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘G’, ‘G’, ‘F’ and ‘[?S]’ in the drawing
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘11’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVII – 11’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 10 verso opposite (D03296). For its general setting, see under folio 4 verso (D03284). As Finberg noted,1 a ‘Scottish Pencil’ drawing of this subject is Tate D03381 (Turner Bequest LVIII 2), which he identified as ‘Ben Arthur’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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See Finberg 1909, I, p.151.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Rocky Pass between Mountains: ?Glen Croe with the Slopes of Ben Arthur: Beinn an Lochain 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-a-rocky-pass-between-mountains-glen-croe-with-the-slopes-of-r1179495, accessed 30 June 2024.