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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Baldersby Park near Topcliffe, and a Detail of Hornby Castle 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Baldersby Park near Topcliffe, and a Detail of Hornby Castle’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Baldersby Park near Topcliffe, and a Detail of Hornby Castle 1816
D10992
Turner Bequest CXLIV 68a
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Newby Park’, bottom right, and ‘Leeds’, ‘Upper Lobes | Front Ditto’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Baldersby Park, also called Newby Park and named as such in Turner’s inscription, from the River Swale. Baldersby Park was designed in 1721 by Colen Campbell for Sir William Robinson and is said to be the earliest Palladian villa in England. It survives today as the home of Queen Mary’s School for Girls. For further views see folios 69 verso and 70 in this sketchbook (D10994, D10995).
There is also a detail of a gateway or doorway to the left, inscribed ‘Leeds’, alluding to the Dukes of Leeds, and thus to their seat, Hornby Castle, the subject of several previous sketches including the verso (D10991).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Baldersby Park near Topcliffe, and a Detail of Hornby Castle 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-baldersby-park-near-topcliffe-and-a-detail-of-hornby-castle-r1144181, accessed 20 September 2024.