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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Panorama in Three Parts: ?Conishead Priory and the Cartmel Hills 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Panorama in Three Parts: ?Conishead Priory and the Cartmel Hills’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Recto:
A Panorama in Three Parts: ?Conishead Priory and the Cartmel Hills 1816
D11174
Turner Bequest CXLV 86
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘86’ top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV 86’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This almost certainly records a panorama round to Conishead Priory, possibly looking east over Cartmel Sands to the hills of the Cartmel peninsular and Morecambe Bay. The drawing, made with the page turned horizontally, appears to begin at the top and pan right through the two continuations below to terminate at the right with the priory. The present author has dated Turner’s sketches in the area of the latter to Tuesday 6 August 1816,1 but has suggested in this case that the hills are those of the Furness rather than the Cartmel peninsular.2
For general notes on Conishead Priory, see under folio 85 verso (D11173).
1
See Hill 1984, pp.83–4.
2
Ibid., p.30.
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David Hill
April 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Panorama in Three Parts: ?Conishead Priory and the Cartmel Hills 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-panorama-in-three-parts-conishead-priory-and-the-cartmel-r1201760, accessed 15 May 2025.