Graphite and watercolour on paper
Tweed and Lakes Sketchbook
Tweed and Lakes Sketchbook
North of England 1797-1801
North of England 1797-1801
Cumbria
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Tweed and Lakes Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Grasmere Looking South towards Rydal Water
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
boat, sailing
cloud
Cumbria
England
England, Northern
figure
Grasmere
lake
Lake District
landscape
mountain
people
places
Rydal Water
society
transport: water
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
water: inland
weather
wooded
<p>Turner made only a handful of sketches in this book on his way up to the Scottish border, reserving its much larger sheets for the Lake District. The enveloping scenery of the English Lakes offered Turner a new challenge, which, after a tentative start, he rose to, despite wet weather. Twelve of the landscapes are partly worked up in watercolour, and Turner later told Joseph Farington (one of the Royal Academicians he was anxious to impress) that they had been coloured from nature. These lakeland studies demonstrate a new breadth in his approach to landscape, which he successfully transferred to the oil paintings based on two of the sketches.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
15 June 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
15 June 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
2005-06-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-06-15
A Picture of Britain
Exhibition
Grasmere, Looking South towards Rydal Water
support: 274 × 370 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Turner made only a handful of sketches in this book on his way up to the Scottish border, reserving its much larger sheets for the Lake District. The enveloping scenery of the English Lakes offered Turner a new challenge, which, after a tentative start, he rose to, despite wet weather. Twelve of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a> are partly worked up in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a>, and Turner later told Joseph Farington (one of the Royal Academicians he was anxious to impress) that they had been coloured from nature. These lakeland studies demonstrate a new breadth in his approach to landscape, which he successfully transferred to the oil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> based on two of the sketches.</p>
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adults boat, sailing cloud Cumbria England England, Northern figure Grasmere lake Lake District landscape mountain people places Rydal Water society transport: water UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features water: inland weather wooded
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