'Brougham Castle and the River Eamont', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Brougham Castle and the River Eamont

From Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXXVII

Date 1809

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 181 x 228 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D10315

Turner Bequest CXXXVII 71

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 73 Verso:

Brougham Castle and the River Eamont 1809

D10315
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 71

Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVII 71’ bottom right
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘CXXXVII, 71’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram lower right of centre

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

References

Finberg lists this leaf as one of six believed ‘to have formed part of this book’. It is now bound in as folio 73 verso, with the image inverted. The recto is blank, but inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘7 1/8 x 9 1/16’.

This is one of two detailed drawings of Brougham Castle associated with this sketchbook by Finberg; see note to folio 72 verso (D10314; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 70) for the subject and background. Turner later combined the drawings as the basis for his watercolour Brougham Castle, near the Junction of the Rivers Eamont and Lowther (Tate D18147; Turner Bequest CCVIII N), engraved by William Say in 1825 for The Rivers of England. For a view of Yanwath Hall, south of Penrith at Eamont Bridge, also drawn in 1809, see folio 71 verso (D10316; Turner Bequest CXXVII 72).

The paper is discoloured from exposure in the touring Second Loan Collection.1

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

For the full tour see Warrell 1991, p.43.

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.