Exhibition Details

Turner in Teesdale
Sat 13 Dec 08 - Sun 31 Jan 10

An in depth exploration of The Bowes Museum’s watercolours by JMW Turner. This display will feature the recently acquired Bowes Tower, produced to illustrate Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem Rokeby, alongside acquisitons recently obtained by the Museum.

Summer sketching tours were part of Turner’s annual routine and he first travelled the North of England in 1797, making sketches in Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland. During the 1830s he produced designs to illustrate volumes of poetry by some of his most celebrated contemporaries including Sir Walter Scott, author of the epic poem Rokeby, which is set in the countryside between Rokeby Park and Barnard Castle. Bowes Tower acted as the frontispiece to Volume Nine of Scott’s poetry.

“In this watercolour Turner captures the stunning landscape that so enchanted Scott,” said Ms House.


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