'Sketches Made Near Keswick', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Sketches Made Near Keswick

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CCLXVI

Date 1831

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 115 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D41077

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Inside Front Cover:

Sketches Made Near Keswick 1831

D41077

Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 187 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Waterfall’ top left, ‘Base’ top right, ‘Lodore’ bottom left running vertically, and ‘Skiddaw’ lower centre
Blindstamped with the Turner Bequest stamp upper centre
Inscribed in pencil in another hand ‘589’ bottom right inverted
Stamped in brown ink ‘CCLXVI’ bottom right inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The four sketches on this page were all made from around Keswick and Derwentwater in the Lake District. Three of the sketches were made with the sketchbook inverted. At the top is a view of a lake and hills labelled ‘Base’, which must be Lake Bassenthwaite from the south flanked by hills including Skiddaw at the left (see folio 24; D25807). Beneath this is a sketch inscribed ‘Skiddaw’ which shows the mountain from the south (see folio 20 verso; D25800). The sketch at the left inscribed ‘waterfall’, and the sketch beneath made with the book turned to the right and inscribed ‘Lordore’, both show the Lodore waterfall at the southern end of Derwentwater. The latter includes the River Derwent in the foreground.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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.