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 144 Recto:
Colby Fall, near Askrigg 1816
D11285
Turner Bequest CXLV 143
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘143’ top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV 143’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is the upper part of a double-page spread continued on folio 143 verso opposite (D11284; Turner Bequest CXLV 142a). Colby Fall is near Coleby Hall about a kilometre west of Askrigg in Wensleydale. Turner also sketched the falls from the left in the following sketch, on folios 142 verso–143 recto (D11282–D11283; Turner Bequest CXLV 141a–142). The present author has dated Turner’s sketches of Askrigg to Friday 26 and Saturday 27 July 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

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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-r1201872, accessed 21 August 2025.