Joseph Mallord William Turner

This is the right half of a double-page spread continued from folio 4 verso (D11528; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 5a, now bound opposite), recording the view from the churchyard of Kirkby Lonsdale Church, looking north and north-east up the Lune Valley. The sketch formed the basis of two colour studies (Tate D17187, D17186; Turner Bequest CXCVI W, V) and of a studio watercolour Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard (on the London art market, 2012)1 engraved for Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire and published in 1822. Turner continued the panorama around to the right, to include a view of Ingleborough, in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11125; Turner Bequest CXLV 58a). The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches of Kirkby Lonsdale to Friday 9 August and Saturday 10 August 1816.

Finberg wrongly associated this leaf with D11520 (Turner Bequest CXLVIII 2a, now bound as folio 2 verso) treating them as a double-page spread. This error had been corrected in a rebinding of the sketchbook before the present writer’s 1984 publication.2