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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bakewell from the East; Buildings among ?Peak District Hills ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bakewell from the East; Buildings among ?Peak District Hills’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
Bakewell from the East; Buildings among ?Peak District Hills ?1831
D22207
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 31a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 191 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ian Warrell has identified the main view, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, as Bakewell,1 looking west over the bridge on the River Wye and up to All Saints Church, which at that time lacked a spire; the medieval bridge survives as Turner shows it, as does the gabled stone building at its far end. For other views of the town see under folio 30 verso (D22205). Below, in place of a foreground, is a separate sketch of isolated buildings among low hills, as yet unidentified but possibly a Peak District subject in common with those on adjacent pages.
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Ian Warrell, notes from 1993 and later in Tate catalogue files.
Technical notes:
There is a prominent fingerprint at the top centre.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Bakewell from the East; Buildings among ?Peak District Hills ?1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-bakewell-from-the-east-buildings-among-peak-district-hills-r1148853, accessed 18 November 2024.