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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cockermouth Castle: the North Curtain Walls from across the River Derwent 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cockermouth Castle: the North Curtain Walls from across the River Derwent’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Cockermouth Castle: the North Curtain Walls from across the River Derwent 1809
D07525
Turner Bequest CIX 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 229 x 375 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘13’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CIX 13’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Cockermouth Castle and views from this sketchbook see Introduction. The view here is from the north, with the outer gatehouse at left, the kitchen tower at centre and the round (archers’) tower at right. Similar views, seen from progressively further afield, are D07536; Turner Bequest CIX 24 and D07526; Turner Bequest CIX 14. Another, from still further way but from a slightly further to the east, is D07530; Turner Bequest CIX 18.
Verso:
Blank. Laid down.

David Blayney Brown
August 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Cockermouth Castle: the North Curtain Walls from across the River Derwent 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-cockermouth-castle-the-north-curtain-walls-from-across-the-r1135639, accessed 25 April 2024.