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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner High Force, River Tees: Distant View 1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
High Force, River Tees: Distant View 1816
D11532
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 7a
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This distant view of High Force is taken from the right bank of the River Tees. It formed the basis of a studio watercolour of Fall of the Tees, Yorkshire (Indianapolis Museum of Art),1 which was presumably planned to illustrate Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s proposed seven-volume General History of the County of York (see sketchbook introduction). In the event, however, the watercolour was not painted until about 1825 and was engraved by Edward Goodall in 1827 for Turner’s series of Picturesque View in England and Wales. The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches at High Force to Saturday 3 August 1816.

David Hill
May 2009

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.392 no.790.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘High Force, River Tees: Distant View 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-high-force-river-tees-distant-view-r1143690, accessed 19 September 2024.