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 6 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures with Guns and Dogs on the Moors above Hall Beck Gill c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures with Guns and Dogs on the Moors above Hall Beck Gill’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 302 Recto:
Figures with Guns and Dogs on the Moors above Hall Beck Gill c.1816
D11907
Turner Bequest CXLIX 302
Pencil on white wove paper 149 x 93 mm
Traces of an inscription in red ink ‘302’top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 302’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn as Turner worked through the sketchbook from the back, and thus in reverse to the present numbering, this is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 301 verso opposite (D11906), recording a grouse shoot on the moors above Hall Beck Gill (see notes to the verso, D11908). The location is near Farnley Hall, the Yorkshire home of Turner’s friend and patron Walter Fawkes, and the sketch is similar to one in the Large Farnley sketchbook (Tate D09024; Turner Bequest CXXVIII 8) and thence to a finished watercolour of Grouse Shooting (Wallace Collection, London)1 painted for Fawkes’s friend Sir William Pilkington of Chevet Hall, Wakefield.

David Hill
October 2008

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.361 no.535.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Figures with Guns and Dogs on the Moors above Hall Beck Gill c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, 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-figures-with-guns-and-dogs-on-the-moors-above-hall-beck-gill-r1144052, accessed 26 April 2024.