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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 4 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Kendal from the South 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kendal from the South’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
Kendal from the South 1816
D11516
Turner Bequest CXLVII 44
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
Watermarked ‘[WHA]TMAN | [18]14’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wall and Bank’ bottom right
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘279’ bottom right and ‘44’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVII 44’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records Kendal from the Kirby Lonsdale road to the south, with the tower of the parish church in the centre, and the hills around the head of the River Kent (see folio 35 recto; D11498) in the far distance, and the remains of Kendal Castle on the hill to the right.
Turner sketched a similar view in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11090–D11091; Turner Bequest CXLV 34a–35), on the same tour, and revisited the site in 1831 in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border sketchbook (Tate D25788–D25789; Turner Bequest 14a–15). The last double-spread in the present sketchbook (Tate D11517–D40842; Turner Bequest CXLVII 44a–inside back cover) depicts the same aspect of Kendal from a nearer viewpoint.

David Hill
February 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Kendal from the South 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kendal-from-the-south-r1143651, accessed 19 April 2024.