Joseph Mallord William Turner

Figures Returning from Shooting, perhaps near Farnley Hall

c.1816–18

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
The Aqueduct Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 117 x 180 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D11980
Turner Bequest CLII 6

Catalogue entry

In the distance can be made out a tower with trees to the left and a hill beyond. This resembles Leathley, not far from Farnley Hall, the seat of Turner’s patron Walter Fawkes, which Turner sketched in the Large Farnley sketchbook (Tate D09055; TB CXXVIII 39).
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David Hill
September 2008

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