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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Aysgarth and Wensleydale from the East, with Addlebrough in the Distance 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Aysgarth and Wensleydale from the East, with Addlebrough in the Distance’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Aysgarth and Wensleydale from the East, with Addlebrough in the Distance 1816
D11258
Turner Bequest CXLV 129a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a distant view of Aysgarth, drawn with the page turned horizontally, looking up Wensleydale with Addlebrough in the distance and taken from a short distant east of Aysgarth Force. The present author has dated this sketch to Sunday 28 July 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

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See Hill 1984, pp.52–8.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Aysgarth and Wensleydale from the East, with Addlebrough in the Distance 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-aysgarth-and-wensleydale-from-the-east-with-addlebrough-in-r1201844, accessed 04 June 2026.