Beschreibung:

After Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). The Castle above the Meadows, circa 1814, pen and brown ink, brown wash with traces of pencil, on paper, single rule in brown ink to outer edges of the sheet, two small pinholes to upper left and right corners, sheet size 181 x 263 mm (7 3/16 x 10 3/8 ins), laid down on modern backing card, with original blue backing card affixed to verso, bearing a contemporary inscription in brown ink '4/2/14 Maria's I believe. Lady Polwarth's née Brühl', and a later (probably 20th century) inscription below: 'Turner's original of Okehampton engraved in Liber Studiorum...left hand corner...' , (partly undecipherable), framed and glazed (38 x 45.5 cm) (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Harriet Brühl Scott, Lady Polwarth (1767-1853), inscription on backing card; Private Collection, Derbyshire. The contemporary inscription on the back of the original mount for this skilful copy after Turner's Liber Studiorum plate, often thought to depict Okehampton Castle, suggests that it may have been executed by the second of Lady Polwarth's four daughters, Maria Annabel Scott (1798-1844). Lady Polwarth had a close connection with Petworth in Sussex, due to her mother Alicia's position as the Countess of Egremont, having married Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont. It is possible therefore that both Harriet and her daughter Maria enjoyed the company of Turner during his many visits to the Egremonts' home at Petworth. The Castle above the Meadows, drawn in sepia watercolour and then etched in outline by Turner, was engraved in mezzotint (under Turner's direction), and published by Charles Turner in 1808, as plate 8 of the second part of Turner's Liber Studiorum (Finberg 8 i/iv; Rawlinson 8 i/iv).