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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Southern End of Derwentwater with Lodore Falls Hotel 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Southern End of Derwentwater with Lodore Falls Hotel’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Southern End of Derwentwater with Lodore Falls Hotel 1831
D25797
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘19’ top right and ‘342’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 18 verso (D25797) is a view of the southern end of Derwentwater, made from near Calf Close Bay on the eastern side of the lake. On 18 verso is Lodore with the Lodore Falls Hotel. The lake and the Derwent Fells to its south-west are depicted on the present page with a few rocks in the foreground.
Further views of Derwentwater are on folios 19 verso–22 (D25798–D25803).

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Southern End of Derwentwater with Lodore Falls Hotel 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-southern-end-of-derwentwater-with-lodore-falls-hotel-r1134164, accessed 23 September 2024.