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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Whitaker's 'Richmondshire' c.1816-20 > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Kilnsey Crag and Conistone, Upper Wharfedale c.1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kilnsey Crag and Conistone, Upper Wharfedale’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Kilnsey Crag and Conistone, Upper Wharfedale c.1816
D17205
Turner Bequest CXCVII O
Watercolour on white wove paper, 391 x 485 mm
Watermark: ‘J Whatman | 1814’
Stamped in black ‘CXCVII-O’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘CXCVII O.’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Hill notes that this colour study is based on a detailed pencil sketch made over two sketchbook pages during Turner’s 1816 tour of Yorkshire1 (Tate D11555, D11556; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 19a and 20), the entry for which in the present catalogue also lists related pencil sketches. The study’s close relationship with drawings made during Turner’s 1816 tour and its likeness to other History of Richmondshire ‘colour beginnings’ suggest it belongs in this grouping, although no finished watercolour was made.
See also the introduction to the Richmondshire ‘colour beginnings’ grouping to which this study has been assigned.
1
Hill 1984, pp.45–6.
Technical notes:
There is a vertical fold at the centre of the sheet. Fingerprints are visible in the area of blue paint to the bottom left.
Verso:
Blank, save for inscriptions: stamped in black ‘CXCVII-O’ bottom left; stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left; written in pencil ‘CXCVII. O’ bottom right.

Elizabeth Jacklin
February 2015

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Kilnsey Crag and Conistone, Upper Wharfedale c.1816 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, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kilnsey-crag-and-conistone-upper-wharfedale-r1183202, accessed 25 April 2024.