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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chapel-Le-Dale and Ingleborough from East of Hurtle Pot 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chapel-Le-Dale and Ingleborough from East of Hurtle Pot’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Chapel-Le-Dale and Ingleborough from East of Hurtle Pot 1816
D11095
Turner Bequest CXLV 39
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘From the E of Hurtle Pot’ bottom right
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘39’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV 39’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this sketch Turner is looking south to St Leonard’s Church, Chapel-Le-Dale, with the distinctive profile of Ingleborough above. Turner’s inscription is evidently mistaken; his viewpoint appears to be west of Hurtle Pot. The sketch is slightly out of sequence with its immediate neighbours, and was almost certainly made on the same occasion as a very similar view some pages previous in the sketchbook as it was used (folio 56 verso; D11122), taken from near Jingle Pot.
The material is very similar to that of a sketch of 1808 (Tate D02383; Turner Bequest LI P), which in turn formed the basis of a studio watercolour of Ingleborough from Chapel Le Dale (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).1 In 1816 Turner made notes of each of the caves in the vicinity including nearby Weathercote Cave and Jingle Pot. The present author has dated Turner’s 1816 sketches at the caves near Chapel-Le Dale to Saturday 10 August.2 This sketch, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is upside-down in relation to the main sequence (see the sketchbook’s Introduction).
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, pp.362–3 no.547 as ‘Patterdale Old Church’, reproduced.
2
See Hill l1984, pp.93–100.
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David Hill
April 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Chapel-Le-Dale and Ingleborough from East of Hurtle Pot 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-chapel-le-dale-and-ingleborough-from-east-of-hurtle-pot-r1201681, accessed 01 April 2026.