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 > Large Farnley Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Shooting Party on the Moors near Farnley Hall, with Figures: 'Dogs', 'Guns', 'Game' and an 'Ale Barrel' in the Foreground c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Shooting Party on the Moors near Farnley Hall, with Figures: 'Dogs', 'Guns', 'Game' and an 'Ale Barrel' in the Foreground’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
A Shooting Party on the Moors near Farnley Hall, with Figures: ‘Dogs’, ‘Guns’, ‘Game’ and an ‘Ale Barrel’ in the Foreground c.1816
D09026
Turner Bequest CXXVIII 10
Pencil on white wove paper, 285 x 460 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Dogs’, ‘Guns’, ‘Game’, ‘Ale Barrel’, across foreground
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXVIII 10’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner continues a sequence that runs from folio 7 of the sketchbook (D09023) in Hall Beck Gill, through folio 8 (D09024) on Beamsley Beacon, and folio 9 (D09025) at Brimham Rocks to the present view; all were perhaps made on the same expedition. The present drawing served as the basis of a finished watercolour, Shooting Party on the Moors, 12th August (private collection)1 painted for Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall. The watercolour has sometime been called ‘Hawksworth Moor’ which is some distance south of Farnley, but as has been previously demonstrated,2 that identification dated back only to 1902. The sequence of sketches to which this belongs suggests a location in the Hall Beck Gill/Beamsley Beacon/Upper Washburn area, about five miles north-west of Farnley, and it seems most likely that the shoot took place thereabouts. The watercolour follows the details and positions of the tents and carriage closely, but varies and elaborates the figures, dogs and horses.
1
Wilton 1979, pp.370–1 no.610.
2
Hill, Warburton and Tussey 1980, pp.38–9.
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David Hill
October 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Shooting Party on the Moors near Farnley Hall, with Figures: ‘Dogs’, ‘Guns’, ‘Game’ and an ‘Ale Barrel’ in the Foreground c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-a-shooting-party-on-the-moors-near-farnley-hall-with-figures-r1146746, accessed 25 April 2024.