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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Farnley Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Valley of the River Wharfe from Caley Crags, with Almscliff Crag and Pool Bridge in the Distance 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Valley of the River Wharfe from Caley Crags, with Almscliff Crag and Pool Bridge in the Distance’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
The Valley of the River Wharfe from Caley Crags, with Almscliff Crag and Pool Bridge in the Distance 1818
D12015
Turner Bequest CLIII 12a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Washburn’ and ‘Lindley’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left part of a double-page spread continued to the right on D12016; Turner Bequest CLIII 13 opposite, recording the view from Caley Crags looking north-east across the Wharfe valley, with Almscliff Crag in the left distance, with the junction of the Rivers Wharfe and Washburn below, and Leathley Church to the left, and to the right Pool Bridge over the Wharfe, and below the crags, slightly to the right, the roof of Caley Hall. Turner sketched the same material from higher viewpoint on the preceding pages Tate D12013–D12014; Turner Bequest CLIII 11a–12. With some reference also to the preceding sketch, this sketch formed the direct basis of a watercolour, View across the Wharfe, from Caley Park (private collection)1 painted for Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall about 1818. See notes to D12013 for comment, and for Caley Crags in this sketchbook.

David Hill
June 2009

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Wilton 1979, no.618

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Valley of the River Wharfe from Caley Crags, with Almscliff Crag and Pool Bridge in the Distance 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-valley-of-the-river-wharfe-from-caley-crags-with-r1146648, accessed 19 April 2024.