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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cockermouth Castle from above the Derwent Valley 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cockermouth Castle from above the Derwent Valley’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Cockermouth Castle from above the Derwent Valley 1809
D07558
Turner Bequest CX 18a
Pencil on white laid paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Corn’ lower right
Stamped in black ‘CX 18a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Cockermouth Castle and Turner’s views in this sketchbook see Introduction. Continued on folio 19 (D07559), this is a panoramic view of the town and castle from some distance away, above the River Derwent, not the Cocker as stated by Finberg. The viewpoint is from rather further to the west than on folio 16 (D07555).

David Blayney Brown
August 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Cockermouth Castle from above the Derwent Valley 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-from-above-the-derwent-valley-r1135674, accessed 19 April 2024.