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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Castle, Perhaps Penrith; a Cumbrian Church and a View of Walton, Cumbria 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Castle, Perhaps Penrith; a Cumbrian Church and a View of Walton, Cumbria’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
A Castle, Perhaps Penrith; a Cumbrian Church and a View of Walton, Cumbria 1831
D25604
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 41a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned to the right are two or three sketches. At the top of the page is a rough sketch of a castle. Considering its position on the page – at the outer edge – it is possible that it is a sketch of Penrith Castle made during the same session as the sketch on folio 34 verso (D25590), Turner having flipped over several pages of the book while holding it in the same position looking for some blank space.
Below this is a rough depiction of a church, of the kind often found in Cumbria with a small bell tower rather than a high tower or steeple.
At the bottom of the page is a sketch of a view along a narrow river or stream with a building at the left and a hill in the distance. The view matches exactly the sketch on folio 42 (D25605) which is inscribed ‘Wallton’, and so identified as Walton, near Brampton in Cumbria.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘A Castle, Perhaps Penrith; a Cumbrian Church and a View of Walton, 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-a-castle-perhaps-penrith-a-cumbrian-church-and-a-view-of-r1133964, accessed 25 April 2024.