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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle Head from Lindale, Looking over the Kent Estuary and Morecambe Bay 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle Head from Lindale, Looking over the Kent Estuary and Morecambe Bay’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Castle Head from Lindale, Looking over the Kent Estuary and Morecambe Bay 1816
D11582
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records the view from above the village of Lindale, near Grange-over-Sands, looking out over Castle Head in the middle distance to Arnside Knott beyond and in the right distance the great sweep of Morecambe Bay as far as Heysham Head. The sketch served as the basis of an unfinished studio watercolour (Tate D25473; Turner Bequest CCLXIII 350), which was presumably intended (had it been completed) for engraving in Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s projected seven–volume General History of the County of York (see sketchbook introduction). The present writer has dated this sketch to Monday 5 August 1816.
Turner also sketched Castle Head, from a closer viewpoint, in the Yorkshire 4 sketchbook (D11501–D11502; Turner Bequest CXLVII 36a–37).

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Castle Head from Lindale, Looking over the Kent Estuary and Morecambe Bay 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-castle-head-from-lindale-looking-over-the-kent-estuary-and-r1143683, accessed 19 April 2024.