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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bilton Hall, Bilton in Ainsty, from the West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bilton Hall, Bilton in Ainsty, from the West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
Bilton Hall, Bilton in Ainsty, from the West 1816
D10890
Turner Bequest CXLIV 12a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread recording Bilton Hall, continued to the right on Tate folio 13 (D10891), opposite.
Bilton Hall is a private house at Bilton in Ainsty about five miles east of Wetherby. It was the property of the Hall Plumer family, and the west range survives as drawn by Turner with its three large canted bays, despite considerable augmentation since that time.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Bilton Hall, Bilton in Ainsty, 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-bilton-hall-bilton-in-ainsty-from-the-west-r1144077, accessed 25 April 2024.