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 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Plompton Rocks from the West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Plompton Rocks from the West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Plompton Rocks from the West 1816
D10874
Turner Bequest CXLIV 4
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘yell’, ‘S Ches’, ‘Fir’, ‘wall’, ‘grass’ within image
Very faint trace of an inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, bottom right, and another ‘4’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 4’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the continuation to the right of the panorama begun on folio 3 verso (D10873), opposite. Almost exactly the same view is recorded towards the right side of a sketch made in 1797 (Tate D02392; Turner Bequest LI Y).
For Plompton Rocks in this sketchbook see folio 3 verso (D10873).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Plompton Rocks from the West 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-plompton-rocks-from-the-west-r1144061, accessed 24 April 2024.