Joseph Mallord William Turner

This one of a sequence of mostly unidentified landscape sketches running from folio 27 verso (D12355) to folio 33 recto (D12366), with a further two on folio 50 recto (D12384) and folios 51 verso–52 recto (D12386, D12387). As discussed in the entry for folio 27 verso, they are likely to show scenes on the moors and hills around Bowes, south-west of Barnard Castle.

A horse and rider are cursorily indicated on a summit in the foreground, as if surveying the scene. The distant hills are continued for half the width of folio 29 verso opposite (D12359).