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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Rocky Pass between Mountains (Glen Croe, with the Slopes of Ben Arthur: Ben an Lochain) 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Rocky Pass between Mountains (Glen Croe, with the Slopes of Ben Arthur: Ben an Lochain)’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Rocky Pass between Mountains (Glen Croe, with the Slopes of Ben Arthur: Ben an Lochain) 1801
D03381
Turner Bequest LVIII 2
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 352 x 492 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 2’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Finberg noted,1 a slight sketch of the subject is in the 1801 Tummel Bridge sketchbook (Tate D03296–D03297; Turner Bequest LVII 10a–11).
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See Finberg 1909, I, p.154.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Rocky Pass between Mountains (Glen Croe, with the Slopes of Ben Arthur: Ben an Lochain) 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-a-rocky-pass-between-mountains-glen-croe-with-the-slopes-of-r1179779, accessed 23 November 2024.