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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lee Pen from Innerleithen 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lee Pen from Innerleithen’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
Lee Pen from Innerleithen 1834
D26121
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 14a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘wood’ top
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The hill in the background of this sketch is Lee Pen, which looms over the town of Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders. David Wallace-Hadrill has suggested that this sketch is one of a series depicting Traquair House.1 However, the area around the buildings at the centre of this sketch does not appear to be wooded enough to be Traquair and may be part of Innerleithen as seen from the south instead. Sketches on folios 15–18 (D26122–D26128) were made nearby.
At the top of the page is a sketch of a hill inscribed ‘wood’. This may be Wallace’s Hill to the west of Innerleithen rather than Lee Pen; for further sketches of Wallace’s Hill see folios 12 verso and 13 (D26117, D26118).

Thomas Ardill
December 2010

1
David Wallace Hadrill, ‘CCLXVIII “Edinburgh” 1831–34’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Lee Pen from Innerleithen 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 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-lee-pen-from-innerleithen-r1136049, accessed 27 April 2024.