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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1831 > Sound of Mull (?) No. 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Southern Shore of the Sound of Mull 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Southern Shore of the Sound of Mull’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
?The Southern Shore of the Sound of Mull 1831
D26941
Turner Bequest CCLXXIV 3a
Pencil on white wove paper, 91 x 153 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIV – 3a’ top left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Like all the pages in this book, the present sketch was very rapidly and roughly executed, and without any architecture, and no distinctive topography, the subject in this case is hard to determine. The general shape of the coastline and the fact that the sketch appears in the book between views of Oban Bay (folio 3; D26940) and Duart Castle (folio 4; D26943) are presumably what suggested to David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan that the view was likely to be of the ‘southern shore of the Sound of Mull’,1 sketched as Turner’s boat approached the entrance to the Sound.

Thomas Ardill
February 2010

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner on the Isle of Skye 1831’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [folio 29].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘?The Southern Shore of the Sound of Mull 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-the-southern-shore-of-the-sound-of-mull-r1135315, accessed 22 November 2024.