Joseph Mallord William Turner

Turner’s sketch is taken from the terrace of Wycliffe Hall (for which see notes to folio 26 recto; D11482), looking downstream on the River Tees. Turner continued the sketch to the right, to include part of the house, on folio 29 recto (D11487). A similar view was recorded in 1805 by John Sell Cotman, in a watercolour usually called On the Tees, near Rockliffe (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).1 Turner also sketched the view upstream from Wycliffe in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11210; Turner Bequest CXLV 104a). The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches in the Wycliffe area to Thursday 1 August 1816.