Wastwater, Cumberland

Details

WILLIAM TURNER OF OXFORD, O.W.S. (BLACKBOURTON 1782-1862 OXFORD)
Wastwater, Cumberland
signed 'W. Turner/ Oxford' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with gum arabic and with scratching out
10 7⁄8 x 16 1⁄4 in. (27.7 x 41.3 cm.)

Provenance

with Agnew's, London.

Exhibited

London, Old Water Colour Society, 1853, no. 158.
London, Old Water Colour Society, 1858, no. 114.
London, Agnew's, 100th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours & Drawings, 15 January-16 February 1973, no. 146.

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Lot Essay

Turner made his first trip to the Lake District in 1814, and went again in 1840. The Wordsworth Trust have several sketches from this latter tour dated July 1840. Whilst the first tour resulted in just three exhibited works, the second was much more productive, and Turner showed eighteen Lake District subject between 1841 and 1854, including the present watercolour.

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