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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Colby Fall, near Askrigg 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Colby Fall, near Askrigg’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 142 Verso:
Colby Fall, near Askrigg 1816
D11282
Turner Bequest CXLV 141a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Partial watermark ‘I & E | 1’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘L [?Liana]’ (?trailing vegetation), bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is the lower part of a double-page spread continued on folio 143 recto opposite (D11283; Turner Bequest CXLV 142). Colby Fall is near Coleby Hall about a kilometre west of Askrigg in Wensleydale. Turner also drew the falls in the previous sketch, on folios 143 verso–144 recto (D11284–D11285; Turner Bequest CXLV 142a–143). The present author has dated Turner’s sketches of Askrigg to Friday 26 and Saturday 27 July 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.46–52.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Colby Fall, near Askrigg 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-colby-fall-near-askrigg-r1201869, accessed 09 June 2026.