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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Southern End of Derwentwater with Lodore 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Southern End of Derwentwater with Lodore’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Southern End of Derwentwater with Lodore 1831
D25799
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘20’ top right and ‘342’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued at the left on folio 19 verso (D25798), this sketch has been identified as a view of the southern end of Derwentwater from the eastern side of the lake around Calf Close Bay. 1 This half of the sketch depicts the mountains to the south-west of the lake called the Derwent Fells. This sketch is one of several that Turner made of Derwentwater in this sketchbook: folios 18 verso–22 (D25796–D25803).

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

1
Hill 1996, p.193.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Southern End of Derwentwater with Lodore 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-r1134166, accessed 19 September 2024.