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 4 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Whitbarrow Scar, Looking North-East 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Whitbarrow Scar, Looking North-East’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Whitbarrow Scar, Looking North-East 1816
D11507
Turner Bequest CXLVII 39a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Loose Stones’, ‘in Continuation’, ‘Bog’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here, Turner records the view from above Whitbarrow Lodge, north-east along the escarpment of Whitbarrow Scar towards the distant Howgill Fells. Above, the prospect is continued to the right (east) to include the view across the Kent Estuary towards Heversham. There are a few lines progressing the main sketch to the right on folio 40 recto opposite (D11508). Levens Hall is visible in this area and Turner has drawn a detail (possibly observed with a telescope?) in the left centre of the page.
The previous double-spread (folios 38 verso–39 recto; D11505–D11506) is taken from the same viewpoint, but looking in the opposite direction.

David Hill
February 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Whitbarrow Scar, Looking North-East 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-whitbarrow-scar-looking-north-east-r1143642, accessed 24 April 2024.