Joseph Mallord William Turner

The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. Ian Warrell, following Warburton’s tacit association of the drawing with Turner’s tour for Dr Whitaker,1 assumes that this is a scene ‘near Whalley’,2 as indeed it may be; though there is no internal evidence to confirm this. The stone and slate construction of the cottage or hut, with its grindstone outside the door, is consistent with a location in both Lancashire and North Wales. The slight studies of battlements on the verso (D41274) are however perhaps more likely to be connected with Caernarvon or Beaumaris than Whalley; compare folio 5 verso (D01917).

Technical notes:

The sheet is discoloured from exposure.