J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees at or near Farnley Hall ?1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees at or near Farnley Hall’ ?1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Verso:
Trees at or near Farnley Hall ?1814
D09786
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 82a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘F’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inscribed ‘F’ presumably stands for Farnley, and the trees are presumably on or near Walter Fawkes’s Yorkshire estate; drawings of Farnley Hall begin on folio 74 verso (D09770; see the sketchbook’s Introduction). There is a very slight continuation of the treetops on folio 86 recto opposite (D09787; CXXXIII 83).

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Trees at or near Farnley Hall ?1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, 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-trees-at-or-near-farnley-hall-r1147339, accessed 24 April 2024.