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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Carlisle from the North 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Carlisle from the North’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
View of Carlisle from the North 1801
D05097
Turner Bequest LXXXII 21a
Pencil on white wove paper, 256 x 161 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 21a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 22 recto opposite (D05098). This is one of two detailed drawings of Carlisle from the north; the other is on folios 22 verso–23 recto (D05099–D05100).
Turner had already made an untraced watercolour view of Carlisle1 which was engraved in 1797 for Walker’s Copper–Plate Magazine (Tate impression: T05902). He returned to the city in 1831, and made a drawing of a similar view in his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border sketchbook (Tate D25844–D25845; Turner Bequest CCLXVI 42a–43), used as the basis for a watercolour of about 1832 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven),2 engraved for Walter Scott’s Poetical Works in 1834 (Tate impression: T05134).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.312 no.100.
2
Ibid., p.427 no.1070, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View of Carlisle from the North 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-of-carlisle-from-the-north-r1178666, accessed 26 April 2024.