Joseph Mallord William Turner

Buttermere, with Honister Pass and Fleetwith Pike

1797

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Tweed and Lakes Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 274 × 370 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D01029
Turner Bequest XXXV 27

Catalogue entry

The view, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is taken from the western end of Buttermere, looking south-east down the lake. Other studies made at Buttermere are on folios 40 recto and 41 recto (D01086, D01030; Turner Bequest XXXV 84, 28); see also folio 42 recto (D01031; Turner Bequest XXXV 29). Jerrold Ziff implies 1 that the drawing Turner made on folio 40 (D01086) is a coloured version of this subject, but the two show different views.

Ziff 1982, p.3.

Verso:

Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by Finberg in pencil ‘141.27’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

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