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 > Scarborough 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Scarborough Mere from the South-West, with Oliver's Mount in the Distance c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scarborough Mere from the South-West, with Oliver's Mount in the Distance’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Scarborough Mere from the South-West, with Oliver’s Mount in the Distance c.1816–18
D11931
Turner Bequest CL 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Watermarked ‘[BAR]NARD | [18]12’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘R [?]’ bottom left, ‘Mere [?] on lake to right and ‘sea’ in the distance
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘14’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CL 14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records the view from high ground above the Malton and York road looking north-east across the Weaponness Valley, over Scarborough Mere to Oliver’s Mount. Another sketch in the same sequence (D11940; Turner Bequest CL 21) records the view a little further along the road towards Scarborough, and yet another (D11932; Turner Bequest CL 15) one further away towards Seamer. Both were probably made in sequence with the present sketch.
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David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Scarborough Mere from the South-West, with Oliver’s Mount in the Distance c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-scarborough-mere-from-the-south-west-with-olivers-mount-in-r1146958, accessed 25 April 2024.