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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Dovestone in Hall Beck Gill, near Farnley Hall 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
The Dovestone in Hall Beck Gill, near Farnley Hall 1816
D09804
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 14
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘14’ bottom right (very faint)
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of the Dovestone outcrop, looking west up Hall Beck Gill near Blubberhouses, is similar to those on folios 34 recto and 36 recto (D09798, D09799; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 9, 10), and the subject is discussed under the latter.
In his entry in the present catalogue for Tate D40047, the verso of another Dovestone drawing (Tate D12099; Turner Bequest CLIV A), David Hill has linked the present sketch with one of three watercolour Yorkshire ‘colour beginnings’ on a single sheet (Tate D25492; Turner Bequest CCXLIII 369).1 The other two can be related to his 1816 tour of Yorkshire gathering material for Dr Whitaker’s Richmondshire (see the overall Introduction to the present tour), suggesting that Turner perhaps contemplated a finished version of Hall Beck Gill.
For other views at and around Farnley Hall and nearby Yorkshire properties belonging to Walter Fawkes see under folio 1 verso (D09790).
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See also David Hill, In Turner’s Footsteps: Through the Hills and Dales of Northern England, London 1984, ill.34 (colour), with the study related to the present drawing captioned as ‘Kex Gill’, Hill’s earlier identification for Hall Beck Gill subjects, as explained under Tate D09799.
Verso:
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Dovestone in Hall Beck Gill, near Farnley Hall 1816 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-the-dovestone-in-hall-beck-gill-near-farnley-hall-r1147393, accessed 26 April 2024.