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 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
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

1
For the full tour see Warrell 1991, p.43.

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-r1131359, accessed 23 April 2024.