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 27 Recto:
Mayburgh Henge, Eamont Bridge, Penrith 1831
D25813
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘27’ top right and ‘342’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 26 verso (D25812) is the drawing that formed the basis for Turner’s illustration to volume 11 of Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works, The Bridal of Triermain: Mayburgh circa 1832 (whereabouts unknown).1 The view is looking north from the southern end of the henge with Beacon Hill in the distance.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.429 no.1091.

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-r1134180, accessed 23 April 2024.