
William Turner of Oxford (1789–1862), Loch Etive, Argyllshire, Scotland
, Watercolor, over pencil, on wove paper, Property of a Fellow of the Morgan Librar
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In 1838, when he was almost fifty, William Turner made his first trip to Scotland. Ruskin observed that one of his Scottish landscapes was "full of truth in its far-off Highland hills, and glowing sky, and low floating mists," very much like the present drawing.