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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Arran; and Other Sketches 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Arran; and Other Sketches’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
Distant View of Arran; and Other Sketches 1831
D26566
Turner Bequest CCLXX 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 201 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘arran’ running parallel with the fore-edge of the page
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘66’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXX – 66’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Along the fore-edge of the page is a sketch inscribed ‘arran’. David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have suggested that this was made from the north near the mouth of Loch Fyne during Turner’s journey by steamboat to Islay (see folio 78; D26590).1 The view is easy to identify with the distinctive peak of Goatfell at the left and the hump of Meall nan Damh at the right.
The other sketches have not been confidently identified. The large sketch beneath the Arran sketch depicts the rough profile of a mountain, while at the top right of the page, drawn with the book turned to the left, are three small thumbnail sketches of a bridge (see folio 65; D26564) and mountains.

Thomas Ardill
June 2010

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner Round the Clyde and Islay – 1831’, 1991, Tate catalogue files, folio 8.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Distant View of Arran; and Other Sketches 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-distant-view-of-arran-and-other-sketches-r1135000, accessed 30 June 2024.