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
Folio 17 Recto:
Cockermouth Castle: the North Curtain Walls from across the River Derwent 1809
D07556
Turner Bequest CX 17
Pencil on white laid paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CX 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Cockermouth Castle and Turner’s views in this sketchbook see Introduction. Finberg is surely wrong in stating that this view is from the Cocker. It is similar to the preceding folio 16 (D07555), from the Derwent, but with more emphasis on the landscape foreground, more trees and the castle appearing as little more than an outline. The foreground is denser still in folio 18 (D07557).
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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-r1135672, accessed 25 April 2024.