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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blair Atholl: A River with Rocks, Trees and a Distant Hill 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 123 Recto:
Blair Atholl: A River with Rocks, Trees and a Distant Hill 1801
D03150
Turner Bequest LVI 121
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blair Athol’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘121’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 121’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 122 verso opposite (D03149; Turner Bequest LVI 120a), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Blair Atholl: A River with Rocks, Trees and a Distant Hill 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-blair-atholl-a-river-with-rocks-trees-and-a-distant-hill-r1179345, accessed 30 June 2024.