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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ullswater from Gowbarrow Park, Looking South 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ullswater from Gowbarrow Park, Looking South’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
Ullswater from Gowbarrow Park, Looking South 1797
D01042
Turner Bequest XXXV 40
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘do [i.e. ditto] Gobarrow’ bottom right, and ‘PF’ and ‘6’ in the drawing
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 40’ bottom left, descending vertically
The subject was drawn with the page turned horizontally. The present author and Turner scholar David Hill1 suggest that this page and two succeeding ones, folios 56 recto and 57 recto (D01044, D01045; Turner Bequest XXXV 42, 43), were used in the evolution of the view of Ullswater that Turner painted for Walter Fawkes in about 1815 (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester).2 See, however, the entry for D01044.
1
See Wilton 1979, p.363, and Hill 1980, p.57.
2
Wilton 1979, p.363 no.551, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by Finberg in pencil ‘141.40’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Ullswater from Gowbarrow Park, Looking South 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-ullswater-from-gowbarrow-park-looking-south-r1150218, accessed 26 April 2024.