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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mayburgh Henge, Eamont Bridge, Penrith 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mayburgh Henge, Eamont Bridge, Penrith’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Mayburgh Henge, Eamont Bridge, Penrith 1831
D25815
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘28’ top right and ‘348’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Mayburgh Henge seems to have been made by Turner in order to record the view to the left (west) of the main site as depicted on folio 26 verso (D25812). The two sketches closely match, but this one extends at the left to folio 27 verso (D25814), and shows the rest of the earthwork bank at the view to the Cumbrian mountains in the west. The single standing stone can be seen just right of centre with Beacon Hill above it in the distance.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Mayburgh Henge, Eamont Bridge, Penrith 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-mayburgh-henge-eamont-bridge-penrith-r1134182, accessed 19 April 2024.