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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > North of England 1797-1801 > Tweed and Lakes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Glaramara from Borrowdale 1797

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Glaramara from Borrowdale’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
Glaramara from Borrowdale 1797
D01085
Turner Bequest XXXV 83
Pencil with watercolour on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Part watermark ‘E & P’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram at centre (within in the wash)
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 83’ bottom left, descending vertically
The mountaineer and art historian Peter Bicknell described this view, drawn with the page turned horizontally, as showing Borrowdale and Stonethwaite, with Glaramara beyond.1 Turner scholar David Hill concurs, but suggests that it shows ‘Rosthwaite Fell and Glaramara from the road under Castle Crag’, that is from a point slightly farther north, and suggests that Turner made it on his return from Longthwaite (see folio 35 recto; D01090; Turner Bequest XXXV 88). Hill based his opinion on the fact that weather conditions appear to have improved, as they frequently do during the afternoon after a cloudy morning, and on the ‘soft evening sunlight’ that is apparently depicted. But see comments on Turner’s colouring procedures under folio 40 recto (D01086; Turner Bequest 84).
1
Oral communication.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Glaramara from Borrowdale 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-glaramara-from-borrowdale-r1150198, accessed 16 April 2024.