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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View down Loch Tay from above Killin 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View down Loch Tay from above Killin’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
View down Loch Tay from above Killin 1801
D03401
Turner Bequest LVIII 22
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 341 x 487 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 22’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s identification of this panoramic subject as ‘Near Stirling’1 was contradicted by Henry Crawford, who tentatively suggested that ‘it might be Loch Earn or Loch Tay.’2 It seems indeed to show Loch Tay with Ben Lawers to the left and the River Lochay in the foreground.
1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.155.
2
Crawford 1936, p.21.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View down Loch Tay from above Killin 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-view-down-loch-tay-from-above-killin-r1179801, accessed 23 November 2024.