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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Kendal Church and Castle from the South 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kendal Church and Castle from the South’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Kendal Church and Castle from the South 1816
D11062
Turner Bequest CXLV 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘15’ top left and ‘5’ top right, both ascending vertically
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV 15’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, drawn with the page turned horizontally, records a view of Kendal from the south, from the left bank of the river Kent, looking to the church and town, with a separate detail of a building above. Another sketch, on folios 34 verso–35 recto (D11091–D11090), records a similar aspect of Kendal but from a lower viewpoint and further left. A sketch of Kendal church on folio 13 verso opposite (D11061), records it from the same aspect, but from an evidently closer viewpoint. The present author has dated these sketches to Sunday 11 August 1816, the last day of this particular tour.1

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.100–2.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Kendal Church and Castle from the South 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kendal-church-and-castle-from-the-south-r1201648, accessed 17 May 2024.