'Chapel-le-Dale: St Leonard's Church, Chapel Beck and Whernside in the Distance', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Chapel-le-Dale: St Leonard's Church, Chapel Beck and Whernside in the Distance

From Tabley No.1 Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CIII

Date 1808

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 226 x 295 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D06830

Turner Bequest CIII 1

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Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the Tabley No.1 Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 6 Recto:

Chapel-le-Dale: St Leonard’s Church, Chapel Beck and Whernside in the Distance 1808

D06830
Turner Bequest CIII 1

Pencil on off-white wove paper, 226 x 295 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Corn’ lower centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CIII 1’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Finberg’s suggestion of the general locale was presumably based on comparison with folio 12 in this sketchbook (D06834 Turner Bequest CIII 5), a view of Giggleswick on the River Ribble with Ingleborough in the distance. However, it named two features positioned in opposite directions. In fact the drawing shows Chapel-le-Dale looking north towards Whernside; the ‘winding river’ is Chapel Beck which runs south-west into the River Doe. Nestling below the ridge on the right is the tiny St Leonard’s Church, the subject of a larger pencil drawing (Tate D02383: Turner Bequest LI P) and a watercolour (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut),1 both looking in the other direction towards Ingleborough. A watercolour of Ingleborough is listed by Turner in the Greenwich sketchbook (Tate D06824; Turner Bequest CII 52) as destined for Walter Fawkes.

There are traces of watercolour along the top margin and part of a finger-print in greenish watercolour, lower right.

David Blayney Brown
May 2010

Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, pp.362–3 no.547, as ‘Patterdale Old Church’.

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.