'Carlisle', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Carlisle

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CCLXVI

Date 1831

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 114 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D25843

Turner Bequest CCLXVI 42

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 42 Recto:

Carlisle 1831

D25843
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 42

Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘42’ top right and ‘342’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 42’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

With the sketchbook inverted is a sketch of Carlisle from along the River Eden to the west. Eden Bridge, Carlisle Castle and the Cathedral are all depicted faintly in the background.

See folio 39 verso (D25838) for references to other sketches of Carlisle.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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