It has been pointed out that the castle motif identified as Barnard Castle reoccurs in another loose colour sheet containing more than one study (Tate
D25504; Turner Bequest CCLXIII 380).
4 Sketchbook drawings that might be related date from the 1816 tour of Yorkshire (Tate
D11493; Turner Bequest CXLVII 32, Tate
D11207; Turner Bequest CXLV 103, Tate
D11208; Turner Bequest CXLV 103 a). As Hill points out in his catalogue entry for
D11493, Turner had also drawn the viewpoint shown by these studies during his 1797 tour of Northern England (see Tate
D00935; Turner Bequest XXXIV 29). This colour study may also relate to the finished watercolour (Yale Center for British Art) and print (Tate impressions:
T04517,
T04518) published as part of the later
England and Wales series
5 as a much earlier stage in Turner’s development of the idea, but it did not materialise as a finished subject in Whitaker’s
Richmondshire. The final study, a loosely handled landscape subject, shows the Dovestone at Hall Beck Gill, an area Turner had opportunities to explore while staying at Farnley Hall, the home of his friend and patron, Walter Fawkes. Turner made a number of sketches of this area during his 1816 tour of Yorkshire, one of which seems to be the source of this ‘colour beginning’ (Tate
D09799; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 10).