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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cauldron Snout, Upper Teesdale 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cauldron Snout, Upper Teesdale’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Cauldron Snout, Upper Teesdale 1816
D11530
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 6a
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Cauldron Snout is a staircase of falls culminating in one larger fall situated on the upper reaches of the River Tees in relatively remote country a little more than four miles west of High Force. This sketch is taken from a viewpoint about half-way down the left bank of the falls. Turner sketched his first impression of a very similar aspect in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11198; Turner Bequest CXLV 98a), and together these sketches formed the basis of a studio watercolour of Chain Bridge over the Tees (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester)1 painted about 1825 and engraved by W. R. Smith in 1838 for Turner’s series of Picturesque View in England and Wales. The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches at Cauldron Snout to Saturday 3 August 1816.

David Hill
May 2009

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Wilton 1979, pp.402–3 no.878.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Cauldron Snout, Upper Teesdale 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-cauldron-snout-upper-teesdale-r1143686, accessed 23 April 2024.