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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A View from near the Crook of Lune, Looking downstream to Halton Mills, with a Girl Driving Cows to Milk 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A View from near the Crook of Lune, Looking downstream to Halton Mills, with a Girl Driving Cows to Milk’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Recto:
A View from near the Crook of Lune, Looking downstream to Halton Mills, with a Girl Driving Cows to Milk 1816
D11141
Turner Bequest CXLV 69
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Crook looking down’ top centre, and ‘Girl drvg Cow to Milk’ top right
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘69’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV 69’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This records the view from the Crook of Lune, looking down the river Lune towards Halton Mills. It is typical of Turner to notice passing picturesque interest such as the ‘Girl [driving] Cow to Milk’. This sketch, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is upside-down in relation to the main sequence (see the sketchbook’s Introduction).
For general notes on the Crook of Lune see under folio 72 recto (D11147). The present author has dated Turner’s sketches there to Thursday 8 August 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.87–90.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A View from near the Crook of Lune, Looking downstream to Halton Mills, with a Girl Driving Cows to Milk 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-view-from-near-the-crook-of-lune-looking-downstream-to-r1201727, accessed 03 April 2026.