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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Scotch Lakes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ben A'an and Ben More Seen from the North-East 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ben A'an and Ben More Seen from the North-East’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Recto:
Ben A’an and Ben More Seen from the North-East 1801
D03070
Turner Bequest LVI 80
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘80’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 80’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 81 verso opposite (D03069; Turner Bequest LVI 79a), which is continued again on folio 80 verso (D03067; Turner Bequest LVI 78a). A ‘Scottish Pencil’ of this subject is Tate D03397 (Turner Bequest LVIII 18).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Ben A’an and Ben More Seen from the North-East 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-ben-aan-and-ben-more-seen-from-the-north-east-r1179265, accessed 30 June 2024.