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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coniston: The Old Hall from the Lake 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coniston: The Old Hall from the Lake’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Recto:
Coniston: The Old Hall from the Lake 1797
D01060
Turner Bequest XXXV 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Part watermark ‘E & P’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Coniston’ towards bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 58’ bottom right
As Finberg suggested,1 the house in this view, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is Coniston Old Hall, the fifteenth-century seat of the Fleming family, by Turner’s time a ruin. Turner scholar David Hill notes that the mountain in the centre distance is Wetherlam; see the preceding leaf, folio 72 recto (D01059; Turner Bequest XXXV 57); Coniston Old Man is at the extreme left.
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A.J. Finberg, undated MS notes in an interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, vol.I, p.76 and opposite page.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by John Ruskin in brown ink ‘93’ and ‘94’ (both circled); ?in a later hand in blue crayon ‘12’; and by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘141.58’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Coniston: The Old Hall from the Lake 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-coniston-the-old-hall-from-the-lake-r1150237, accessed 25 April 2024.