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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kendal from the South 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kendal from the South’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Kendal from the South 1816
D11090
Turner Bequest CXLV 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a two-part panorama of Kendal from the south, drawn with the pages turned horizontally and continued on folio 35 recto opposite (D11091). The sketch appears to have been Turner’s first impression of the subject, and he sketched it on a larger scale and from a slightly nearer viewpoint in the Yorkshire 4 book (Tate D11516; Turner Bequest CXLVII 44). He drew the same view again in 1831 in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border sketchbook (Tate D25788–D25789; Turner Bequest 14a–15). The present author has dated Turner’s sketches at Kendal to Sunday 11 August 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.100–2.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Kendal from the South 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-kendal-from-the-south-r1201676, accessed 29 May 2025.