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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?View from Ambleside 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?View from Ambleside’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
?View from Ambleside 1831
D25571
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 25
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘25’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIV – 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rather slight sketch of a lake among mountains may depict part of Wansfell Pike and Troutbeck seen from Ambleside across Windermere as in folio 24 verso (D25570).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘?View from Ambleside 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, 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-view-from-ambleside-r1133931, accessed 25 April 2024.