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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Derwentwater: Looking North towards Skiddaw from Brandlehow 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Derwentwater: Looking North towards Skiddaw from Brandlehow’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
Derwentwater: Looking North towards Skiddaw from Brandlehow 1797
D01026
Turner Bequest XXXV 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Part watermark ‘1796’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Keswik’[sic] bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 24’ bottom left, descending vertically
The subject was drawn with the page turned horizontally. Turner scholar David Hill identifies the viewpoint as Brandlehow Woods. Brandlehow is on the western shore of Derwentwater, a little further south than Hawse End, where Turner also made a drawing – see folio 37 recto (D01027; Turner Bequest 25) – presumably on his return from the excursion to Borrowdale; see folios 26 recto and 31 recto (D01079, D01023; Turner Bequest XXXV 77, 21). Hill attributes the slightness of this drawing to the fading of the light, though the view from Hawse End, probably done later, is full of detail that can only have been observed in clear conditions. Compare D01079, a view looking along the lake to Keswick and Skiddaw from Grange Fell, partially worked up in watercolour.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘141.24’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Derwentwater: Looking North towards Skiddaw from Brandlehow 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-derwentwater-looking-north-towards-skiddaw-from-brandlehow-r1150200, accessed 26 April 2024.