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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mayburgh Henge, Eamont Bridge, Penrith 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mayburgh Henge, Eamont Bridge, Penrith’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
Mayburgh Henge, Eamont Bridge, Penrith 1831
D25808
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 24a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This first sketch of Mayburgh Henge, continued on folio 25 (D25809), was made from the east. It looks over the circular earthwork mound with its single stone towards the Cumbrian mountains in the west, with what may be the Helvellyn range at the left and Blencathra, Bannerdale and Bowscale Fell to its right. At the left of the present page are several buildings along the banks of the River Eamont between Eamont Bridge and Yanwath.
For further sketches of the earthwork see folio 26 verso (D25812).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Mayburgh Henge, Eamont Bridge, Penrith 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-mayburgh-henge-eamont-bridge-penrith-r1134175, accessed 24 September 2024.