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 View on Otley Chevin, with Sportsmen and Beaters c.1812-13

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View on Otley Chevin, with Sportsmen and Beaters’ c.1812-13
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
View on Otley Chevin, with Sportsmen and Beaters c.1812–13
D09124
Turner Bequest CXXIX 48
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Inscribed in by Turner pencil ‘Rock’ top left, ‘Dog?’ below, and ‘B’ twice, bottom left
Trace of inscription by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘48 [?]’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CXXIX 48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records the view looking along Otley Chevin from under Caley Crags. It is taken from a similar angle, but a lower viewpoint, to a sketch made c.1818 in the Farnley sketchbook (Tate D12009–D12010; Turner Bequest CLIII 9a–10). The figures suggest the theme of the finished watercolour of Woodcock Shooting on the Chevin (Wallace Collection, London)1 based on the previous sketch in the present sketchbook, folio 47 recto (D09123), although the poses are completely reworked in the watercolour. The pose of the principal figure is studied more closely in the following sketch, folio 49 recto (D09125). The principal figure in the watercolour of Woodcock Shooting was identified as ‘Sir Henry’ (evidently a mistake for Sir William) Pilkington in the catalogue of Christie’s sale, 30 April 1863, lot 271.2 Sir William, of Chevet Hall, Wakefield, commissioned the watercolour.
1
Wilton 1979, p.361 no. 534, as ‘Woodcock shooting on the Chiver’.
2
‘Sir H. Pilkington’ is also given by Andrew Wilton, ibid.
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David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘View on Otley Chevin, with Sportsmen and Beaters 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-view-on-otley-chevin-with-sportsmen-and-beaters-r1146847, accessed 26 April 2024.