J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 3 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hackfall, Looking North-West from the Rock Walk 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hackfall, Looking North-West from the Rock Walk’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Hackfall, Looking North-West from the Rock Walk 1816
D11391
Turner Bequest CXLVI 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in blue ink ‘14’ top left, inverted, and ‘330’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CXLVI 14’ bottom left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread, inverted in relation to the main sequence of sketches, continued to the right on folio 13 verso (D11390) opposite. This offers a more detailed treatment of the similar view on folio 13 recto (D11389), but taken from a viewpoint slightly higher on the rock path, and slightly further north. A third sketch, still higher and further north on the path follows on folio 15 recto (D11392).
See folio 11 verso (D11387) for general notes on Hackfall.
Verso:
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David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Hackfall, Looking North-West from the Rock Walk 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-hackfall-looking-north-west-from-the-rock-walk-r1143518, accessed 23 April 2024.