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 > The Aqueduct Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Washburn Valley from near Lindley Hall, Looking towards Lindley Bridge, Lake Tiny and Leathley Church c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Washburn Valley from near Lindley Hall, Looking towards Lindley Bridge, Lake Tiny and Leathley Church’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
The Washburn Valley from near Lindley Hall, Looking towards Lindley Bridge, Lake Tiny and Leathley Church c.1816–18
D11983
Turner Bequest CLII 9
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Watermarked ‘R BAR[NARD] | 18[12]’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘9’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CLII 9’ bottom left, descending vertically
Lindley Hall is a little over a mile north-east of Farnley Hall, the seat of Turner’s patron Walter Fawkes. Two seated figures lower left are evidently also enjoying the view, and possibly sketching. A list of watercolours by Turner in the Farnley sketchbook (Tate D12011; Turner Bequest CLIII 10a) includes ‘4 Lake from Lindley’, which is otherwise unrecorded, but might indicate that Turner made, or at least planned to make, a watercolour of the present view.

David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Washburn Valley from near Lindley Hall, Looking towards Lindley Bridge, Lake Tiny and Leathley Church 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-the-washburn-valley-from-near-lindley-hall-looking-towards-r1147010, accessed 19 April 2024.