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 5 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mossdale Head, with the Lower Falls 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mossdale Head, with the Lower Falls’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Mossdale Head, with the Lower Falls 1816
D40861
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Mossdale Head, Wensleydale, see folio 31 verso (D11568; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 27a). This sketch is taken from the hamlet of that name, looking up Mossdale Beck to the lower falls to the right, sketched by Turner on folio 33 verso (D11576; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 31a). The present writer dates Turner’s sketches at Mossdale to Saturday 27 July 1816

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Mossdale Head, with the Lower Falls 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-mossdale-head-with-the-lower-falls-r1143718, accessed 19 April 2024.