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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Brighton and Arundel Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sunset ?near Farnley Hall c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sunset ?near Farnley Hall’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
Sunset ?near Farnley Hall c.1824
D18379
Turner Bequest CCX 42
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘[Smith &] Allnutt | [18]22’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘V yellow’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘42’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with swift and cursory handling, here Turner records a sunset; the artist has inscribed the note ‘v[ery] yellow’ at right. This sketch, and those on Tate D18378, D18477; Turner Bequest CCX 41a, 93, are almost certainly connected to sky study and sunset depicted on Tate D18478; Turner Bequest CCX 93a which is believed to have been taken at Farnley Hall, North Yorkshire, on 30 November 1824. Farnley was the estate of Turner’s close friend and patron Sir Walter Fawkes.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sunset ?near Farnley Hall c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sunset-near-farnley-hall-r1181264, accessed 26 April 2024.