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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Egremont Castle, Bridge and Houses from the River Ehen 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Egremont Castle, Bridge and Houses from the River Ehen’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Egremont Castle, Bridge and Houses from the River Ehen 1809
D07570
Turner Bequest CX 29
Pencil on white laid paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘29’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CX 29’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Egremont Castle and views in this sketchbook see Introduction and note to folio 26 (D07567). A closer view of the castle from the same approach is on folio 30 (D07571). Turner made a more finished version of the present view in his Petworth sketchbook (Tate D07528; Turner Bequest CIX 16).
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David Blayney Brown
August 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Egremont Castle, Bridge and Houses from the River Ehen 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-egremont-castle-bridge-and-houses-from-the-river-ehen-r1135686, accessed 25 April 2024.