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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Innerleithen and Lee Pen from the South-East 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Innerleithen and Lee Pen from the South-East’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Innerleithen and Lee Pen from the South-East 1834
D26124
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 16
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Firs’ top left and ‘Lee Pen’ top right
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘16’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 16’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner inscribed this sketch ‘Lee Pen’, referring to the pointed mountain in the background that can be seen in this view of Innerleithen from across the River Tweed. Turner has indicated a row of ‘Firs’ at the left, which he has drawn as four vertical lines with no foliage so that they do not obscure the hill beyond. Sketches made at Innerleithen and Traquair are on folios 14 verso–18 (D26121–D26128).

Thomas Ardill
December 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Innerleithen and Lee Pen from the South-East 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2010, 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-innerleithen-and-lee-pen-from-the-south-east-r1136052, accessed 18 April 2024.