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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cockermouth Castle: the North Curtain Walls seen through Trees 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cockermouth Castle: the North Curtain Walls seen through Trees’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Cockermouth Castle: the North Curtain Walls seen through Trees 1809
D07557
Turner Bequest CX 18
Pencil on white laid paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘18’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CX 18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Cockermouth Castle and Turner’s views in this sketchbook see Introduction. Finberg is surely wrong in stating that this view is from the River Cocker. It must be from near the Derwent, and taken from within the clump of trees seen on the right in folio 17 (D07556). Compare also folio 20 (D07560).

David Blayney Brown
August 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Cockermouth Castle: the North Curtain Walls seen through Trees 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cockermouth-castle-the-north-curtain-walls-seen-through-r1135673, accessed 24 November 2024.