Joseph Mallord William Turner

Cotter Force, near Hawes, 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: D11455
Turner Bequest CXLVII 8

Catalogue entry

Cotter Force is about two miles north-west of the town of Hawes and a mile north-west of the village of Hardraw towards the head of Wensleydale. As the present writer has previously observed,1 Turner’s note of ‘Children looking over’ from the top of the rocks might suggest that the artist was as much the object of their attention as the waterfall; ‘We can almost hear them giggling and whispering about this peculiar stranger with a drawing pad who had invaded their secret dale’.

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Hill 1984, pp.54–5.

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David Hill
February 2009

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