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 > Woodcock Shooting Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Track Rising through Trees on Otley Chevin; Origin of 'Woodcock Shooting on the Chevin' c.1812-13

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Track Rising through Trees on Otley Chevin; Origin of 'Woodcock Shooting on the Chevin'’ c.1812-13
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
A Track Rising through Trees on Otley Chevin; Origin of ‘Woodcock Shooting on the Chevin’ c.1812–13
D09123
Turner Bequest CXXIX 47
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Road’ bottom left
A small splash of blue watercolour near the bottom edge, left
Trace of inscription by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘47 [?]’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CXXIX 47’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, which (as has not been previously noted) is continued on folio 46 verso, opposite (D41541), served as the basis for the watercolour Woodcock Shooting on the Chevin (Wallace Collection, London) painted for Sir William Pilkington of Chevet Hall, Wakefield and dated 1813.1 A small splash of blue watercolour near the bottom left edge of the leaf presumably occurred as Turner worked on the Pilkington watercolour, the date of which confirms that the sketch can have been made no later than the autumn of 1813. Presumably but not absolutely certainly, the watercolour was made not long after the sketch, and a list of subjects on folio 4 recto (D09063), above, which includes ‘10. Woodcock’ records the intention to develop the finished composition.
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Wilton 1979, p.361 no. 534, as ‘Woodcock shooting on the Chiver’.
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David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Track Rising through Trees on Otley Chevin; Origin of ‘Woodcock Shooting on the Chevin’ c.1812–13 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, 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-track-rising-through-trees-on-otley-chevin-origin-of-r1146846, accessed 19 April 2024.