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 5 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dallam Tower, near Milnthorpe, Levens Estuary and the Lake District Fells Beyond 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dallam Tower, near Milnthorpe, Levens Estuary and the Lake District Fells Beyond’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Dallam Tower, near Milnthorpe, Levens Estuary and the Lake District Fells Beyond 1816
D11529
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 6
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 6’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right part of a double-page spread continued from folio 14 verso (D11595; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 42, now bound opposite), showing the view north-west from the deer park of Dallam Tower, looking over the house to the Kent Estuary, with Whitbarrow Scar in the left distance, and Coniston Old Man at the extreme left and Kirkstone Fell dominating the centre distance. A sketch in the Yorkshire 4 sketchbook (D11499–D11500; Turner Bequest CXLVII 35a–36) shows much the same view across the Kent sands as seen from the shore. The present writer has dated these sketches to Monday 5 August 1816. See notes to D11595 for Dallam Tower.
Finberg treated this drawing as part of a double-page spread with D11528 (Turner Bequest CXLVIII 5a, now bound as folio 4 verso) but the correct association with D11595 had been noticed and the book rebound accordingly, prior to the present writer’s 1984 book.

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Dallam Tower, near Milnthorpe, Levens Estuary and the Lake District Fells Beyond 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-dallam-tower-near-milnthorpe-levens-estuary-and-the-lake-r1143685, accessed 25 April 2024.