Joseph Mallord William Turner

This is the right part of a double-page spread continued from folio 2 verso (D11445) opposite, recording the view from the Carlow Stone at the lake foot looking south-west towards Raydale. The drawing was the basis of a studio watercolour Simmer Lake, near Askrigg (British Museum, London)1 engraved by Henry Le Keux for Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire, part of the projected General History of the County of York (see Introduction to the sketchbook) and published in 1822. The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches of Semer Water to Friday 26 July 1816.