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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Windermere: Looking North from Bowness 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Windermere: Looking North from Bowness’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Recto:
Windermere: Looking North from Bowness 1797
D01057
Turner Bequest XXXV 55
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 55’ bottom left, descending vertically
Made with the page turned horizontally, this drawing was used, probably with others in the group of Windermere views here, for example folios 69 recto and 71 recto (D01056, D01058; Turner Bequest XXXV 54, 56), as the basis for a much altered watercolour view of Windermere for the Picturesque Views in England and Wales, of about 1835 (Manchester Art Gallery),1 engraved in 1837 (Tate impression: T05102). This depicts pleasure craft and holidaymakers as well as local people on the shore at the boat landing at Bowness, with Belle Isle in the distance, and Fairfield in golden haze beyond. Views drawn at the upper end of the lake, folios 67 recto and 68 recto (D01054, D01055; Turner Bequest XXXV 52, 53), show Fairfield from somewhat closer.
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Wilton 1979, p.402 no.874, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘141.55’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Windermere: Looking North from Bowness 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-windermere-looking-north-from-bowness-r1150234, accessed 23 April 2024.