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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lake District Mountains from Cartmel Sands 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lake District Mountains from Cartmel Sands’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Verso:
Lake District Mountains from Cartmel Sands 1816
D11171
Turner Bequest CXLV 84a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this records the view north to the Lakeland hills from the old Ulverston to Lancaster coaching route across Carmel Sands, near its eastern landfall for Holker and Cark. The leftmost hills are the Coniston Old Man group, and those at the centre right the Helvellyn/Fairfield group. The bluff in the centre middle distance is Barker Scar, and the bluff terminating the view to the right that of Holker Park. The present author has dated Turner’s crossing of Lancaster Sands to Wednesday 7 August 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

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See Hill 1984, pp.84–7.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Lake District Mountains from Cartmel Sands 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-lake-district-mountains-from-cartmel-sands-r1201757, accessed 08 June 2026.