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 Brougham Castle and the River Eamont 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Brougham Castle and the River Eamont’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Verso:
Brougham Castle and the River Eamont 1809
D10314
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 70
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Brougham C’ bottom right, ‘Rushes’ bottom left, ‘Dark’ lower right of centre and ‘reflecting’ centre right, all within image
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVII 70’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram lower right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg lists this leaf as one of six believed ‘to have formed part of this book’. It is now bound in as folio 27 verso, with the image inverted. The recto is blank, but inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘939’.
Brougham Castle, begun in the thirteenth century, stands beside the River Eamont just north of Penrith. The ruins are in the care of English Heritage. Together with a view of Yanwath Hall, south of Penrith at Eamont Bridge, on folio 71 verso (D10316; Turner Bequest CXXVII 72), Turner drew it in 1809 when he visited Lowther Castle near Penrith as part of a Cumbrian tour. Another equally careful and detailed drawing of the castle was also associated with this sketchbook by Finberg and is now bound in it as folio 73 verso (D10315; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 71). Turner later combined them 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.

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Brougham Castle and the River Eamont 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-brougham-castle-and-the-river-eamont-r1131358, accessed 16 April 2024.