J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Distant View of Harewood House from the North-East 1797

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Distant View of Harewood House from the North-East’ 1797
A Distant View of Harewood House from the North-East 1797
D02388
Turner Bequest LI U
Pencil on white wove paper, 256 x 396 mm
Watermark: fleur de lys
Stamped in black ‘LI – U’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A finished watercolour (private collection)1 depends on this study for the landscape and on Tate D02385 (Turner Bequest LI R) for the architecture. This sheet was originally joined to Tate D02387 (Turner Bequest LI T). The support is an unidentified, probably French paper of about 1780;2 see also Tate D17202 (Turner Bequest CXCVII L).
There are colour trials along the bottom edge, and a larger area on the verso (D40062), which shows through a little at the top right here.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

Revised by Matthew Imms
November 2020

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.324 no.218, reproduced.
2
See Bower 1990, pp.107–8.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Distant View of Harewood House from the North-East 1797’, catalogue entry, January 2013, revised by Matthew Imms, November 2020, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/a-distant-view-of-harewood-house-from-the-north-east-r1150304, accessed 27 July 2026.