Joseph Mallord William Turner

Brougham Castle, Penrith

1831

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 114 x 187 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D25834
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 37 a

Catalogue entry

This view of Brougham Castle near Penrith was made from the east and includes the three-arched Castle Bridge in the foreground. The keep is shown in basic outline, Turner having already made a more detailed sketch on folio 37 (D25834). In the distance at the right is one of the Cumbrian hills to the south-west, probably Blencathra.
There are two further sketches of the castle on folio 38 (D25835), this time from the west.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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