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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ulverston and Coniston Old Man from Conishead Park 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ulverston and Coniston Old Man from Conishead Park’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
Ulverston and Coniston Old Man from Conishead Park 1816
D11579
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 33
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right part of a double-page spread continued from folio 11 verso (D11578; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 32a, now bound opposite), recording the view north from Conishead Park with Coniston Old Man in the distance to the left, the Fairfield group in the centre distance and the High Street group to the right. At the far right is the Folly near Conishead Priory. Turner made sketches of the Priory from two different viewpoints in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11174, D11173; Turner Bequest CXLV 86, 85a). The present writer has dated these sketches to Tuesday 6 August 1816.

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Ulverston and Coniston Old Man from Conishead Park 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ulverston-and-coniston-old-man-from-conishead-park-r1143680, accessed 24 November 2024.