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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Lake among Hills or Fells ?1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Lake among Hills or Fells’ ?1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
?A Lake among Hills or Fells ?1809
D10304
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 63a
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As was suggested in the 1975 Bicentenary exhibition catalogue, the scenery here looks like Lakeland, which would indicate a date of 1809 when Turner seems to have taken this sketchbook to Cumbria; see Introduction and notes to folios 71 verso, 72 verso and 73 verso (D10316, D10314, D10315; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 72, 70, 71).

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?A Lake among Hills or Fells ?1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-lake-among-hills-or-fells-r1131353, accessed 19 April 2024.