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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner From Sutton Bank, Looking West and North to Gormire Lake and Whitestone Cliff c.1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 289 Verso:
From Sutton Bank, Looking West and North to Gormire Lake and Whitestone Cliff c.1816
D11885
Turner Bequest CXLIX 289a
Pencil on white wove paper 149 x 93 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Road’ and ‘Hambleton’ at bottom of the page
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread continued from folio 290 recto opposite (D11886), recording the view from the Sutton Bank road, looking west and north to Gormire Lake with Whitestone Cliff at the right. There is a similar view on another double-page spread in this sketchbook (running from the back, folios 294 recto and 293 verso; D11894, D11893). The inscription ‘Hambleton’ could equally relate to the Hambleton Hills, of which Sutton Bank is the western escarpment, or to Hambleton House, which stands a little way off the left of the road at the top of the bank.
For general notes on Sutton Bank in this sketchbook see folio 295 recto (D11896).

David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘From Sutton Bank, Looking West and North to Gormire Lake and Whitestone Cliff c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-from-sutton-bank-looking-west-and-north-to-gormire-lake-and-r1144030, accessed 29 March 2024.