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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Wharfe Valley near Barden Tower 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
?The Wharfe Valley near Barden Tower 1816
D09796
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 7
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman | 1811’ (lower part of date trimmed at edge of leaf)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Folios 19 recto, 20 recto and 21 recto (D09861, D09862, D09880; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 60, 61, 77) are variations on a view north-west up the narrow Wharfe Valley to Barden Tower near Bolton Abbey; all three of those sketches show the tower as the focal point in the distance, flanked by carefully drawn trees in the foreground. In this case the juxtaposition of trees with a distant valley is similar, albeit without the tower, so the subject remains unconfirmed.
For other views of the tower see under folio 15 verso (D09860; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 59a).
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?The Wharfe Valley near Barden Tower 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-wharfe-valley-near-barden-tower-r1147418, accessed 24 September 2024.