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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > County Durham and Northumberland 1817 > Durham, North Shore, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cock Lake in the Lune Forest, near Middleton in Teesdale 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cock Lake in the Lune Forest, near Middleton in Teesdale’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Cock Lake in the Lune Forest, near Middleton in Teesdale 1817
D12358
Turner Bequest CLVII 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cock Lake’ left of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘29’ bottom right (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLVII – 29’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This one of a sequence of mostly unidentified landscape sketches running from folio 27 verso (D12355) to folio 33 recto (D12366), with a further two on folio 50 recto (D12384) and folios 51 verso–52 recto (D12386, D12387). As discussed in the entry for folio 27 verso, they are all likely to show scenes on the moors and hills around Bowes, south-west of Barnard Castle.
The slope in the middle distance is labelled ‘Cock Lake’, indicating a hill among the moors of the so-called Lune Forest about ten miles to the north-west of Bowes. The present page shows half of a panoramic view running onto folio 28 verso opposite (D12357), where the valley may be that of the River Lune (not to be confused with the longer river in Lancashire and Cumbria).
Technical notes:
A short tear to the right-hand edge has been repaired from the verso (D12359).

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Cock Lake in the Lune Forest, near Middleton in Teesdale 1817 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-cock-lake-in-the-lune-forest-near-middleton-in-teesdale-r1139359, accessed 19 April 2024.