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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?St John's-in-the-Vale, Cumbria 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?St John's-in-the-Vale, Cumbria’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Recto:
?St John’s-in-the-Vale, Cumbria 1831
D25639
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 62
Pencil on white wove paper, 94 x 74 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘62’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIV – 62’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg has described this rather rough sketch, drawn with the sketchbook turned to the left, as ‘a mountain pass’. While there are no other sketches of mountain passes in this sketchbook, there is a view of St Johns-in-the-Vale in Cumbria which bears some resemblance to the present drawing (folio 29 verso; D25580).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘?St John’s-in-the-Vale, 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-st-johns-in-the-vale-cumbria-r1133999, accessed 19 April 2024.