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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Ben Lomond from the East 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Ben Lomond from the East’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Distant View of Ben Lomond from the East 1834
D26668
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 1a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 119 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘1v’ by an unknown hand bottom left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At least two sketches on this page overlap, making identification difficult. David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan have suggested that the sketch at the left shows Ben Lomond from the Lake of Menteith or Loch Ard.1 It is also possible that the view is from the Duke’s Pass between Loch Achray and Aberfoyle; see folio 39 verso (D27779; CCLXXII 7). Across the right half of the page is a rough sketch of cliffs and trees, which is similar in style to a sketch on folio 2 (D26674; CCLXXII 4a).
For further sketches of the Trossachs, see the Loch Ard sketchbook Introduction.

Thomas Ardill
November 2010

1
Wallace-Hadrill and Carolan 1990, vol.10 no.2, p.27.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Distant View of Ben Lomond from the East 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-ben-lomond-from-the-east-r1136369, accessed 21 November 2024.