Joseph Mallord William Turner

Hackfall, Looking North-West from the Rock Walk

1816

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Yorkshire 3 Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 125 × 200 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D11392
Turner Bequest CXLVI 15

Catalogue entry

The rock walk at Hackfall is a path cut through crags above the right bank of the River Ure, just downstream of Mowbray Castle. The path can be seen to the left, and in the centre of the composition we look upstream to Fisher’s Hall, with the Banqueting Hall on the hilltop to the left. This is the last in a sequence of studies in the area, and the highest and most northerly of the series.

See folio 11 verso (D11387) for general notes on Hackfall.

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David Hill
January 2009

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