'The Derwent Valley with Gibside in the Distance', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The Derwent Valley with Gibside in the Distance

From Raby Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CLVI

Date 1817

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 232 x 328 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D12272

Turner Bequest CLVI 8

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 11 Recto:

The Derwent Valley with Gibside in the Distance 1817

D12272
Turner Bequest CLVI 8

Pencil on white wove paper, 232 x 328 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘8’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLVI 8’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This view looking south-west towards the Gibside estate is from downstream on the Derwent near Winlaton Mill, north-east of the two views from Winlaton Scar on folios 9 verso–10 recto (D12267, D12268; CLVI 5a–6) and 10 verso (D12269; CLVI 6a). Old Hollinside manor and the Column of British Liberty on the Gibside estate are cursorily indicated on the skyline towards the centre. There is a similar view on the verso (D12273), among studies of Hylton Castle.

Further studies of Gibside and the surrounding landscape are on folios 6 verso to 9 recto (D40723, D12265, D40724, D12270, D12271, D12266; CLVI 3 verso–4, [4 verso]–7, 7a, 5). See the introduction to the tour and the entry for folio 6 verso (D40723) for more on the history of the house and estate.

Technical notes:

The pencil number ‘8’ may obscure or reinforce John Ruskin’s customary red ink foliation, which is evident only faintly and intermittently in this much-rearranged book (see the introduction to the sketchbook).

Matthew Imms
February 2010

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