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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gordale Scar 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gordale Scar’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 169 Verso:
Gordale Scar 1816
D11334
Turner Bequest CXLV 168a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 96 mm
Partial watermark ‘mith | 12’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Fall’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread, continued from folio 170 recto opposite (D11335; Turner Bequest CXLV 169). The two pages, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, form the first of seven studies of Gordale Scar and its approaches including one in the Yorkshire 5 sketchbook (Tate D11574; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 30a), which also accompanied Turner on his tour of 1816. The present author has dated this sketch to the evening of Wednesday 24 July.1
For general notes on Gordale, see under D11335.

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.39–42.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Gordale Scar 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-gordale-scar-r1201921, accessed 12 June 2026.