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.
The page is darkened from over-exposure.

David Hill
January 2009

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