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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Patterdale, with Ullswater in the Distance 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Patterdale, with Ullswater in the Distance’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Patterdale, with Ullswater in the Distance 1797
D01047
Turner Bequest XXXV 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Do’ (i.e. ditto) bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 45’ bottom left, descending vertically
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, the view is taken from above Side Cottages, looking across to Side Farm and the lake.
The present author, supported by Turner scholar David Hill,1 proposed that another view at Patterdale, showing the Old Hall seen from below Side Farm, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,2 is a leaf that belongs to this part of the sketchbook.
1
See Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.325 under no.228, and Hill 1996, p.194.
2
Wilton 1979, p.325 no.228, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘141.45’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Patterdale, with Ullswater in the Distance 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-patterdale-with-ullswater-in-the-distance-r1150223, accessed 25 April 2024.