Joseph Mallord William Turner

Aysgarth Force, Wensleydale

1816

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Yorkshire 4 Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 125 x 206 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D11458
Turner Bequest CXLVII 11

Catalogue entry

Aysgarth Force is the furthest downstream and the grandest of three falls on the River Ure at Aysgarth. This sketch formed the basis of a studio watercolour of Aysgarth Force (Indianapolis Museum of Art)1 engraved in Thomas Dunham Whitaker History of Richmondshire, part of the projected seven-volume General History of the County of York (see Introduction to the sketchbook), and published on 1 June 1820.

David Hill
February 2009

1

Wilton 1979, p.365 no.570; Krause 1997, pp.123–6 no.35.

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