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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape, Probably Near Brough, Cumbria 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape, Probably Near Brough, Cumbria’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
Landscape, Probably Near Brough, Cumbria 1831
D25598
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 38a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across two pages, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, is a landscape composed of just a few undulating lines representing distant hills. A building at the right of folio 39 (D25599) may be Brough Castle, as depicted several times already in this sketchbook (see folio 36; D25593). This is therefore a view from the road to the north of the Cumbrian town of Brough with the hills to the east and west of Kirkby Stephen.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Landscape, Probably Near Brough, Cumbria 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-landscape-probably-near-brough-cumbria-r1133958, accessed 26 April 2024.