Joseph Mallord William Turner Hardraw Force 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Hardraw Force 1816
D11548
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 15a
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 15a
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sun’, ‘Grey Stone’, Grass’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sun’, ‘Grey Stone’, Grass’
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.427, CXLVIII 15a, as ‘Mossdale Fall, Yorkshire...’.
1980
David Hill, Stanley Warburton, Mary Tussey and others, Turner in Yorkshire, exhibition catalogue, York City Art Gallery 1980, p.78, no.117 (as ‘Hardraw Force).
1982
Stanley Warburton, Turner and Dr. Whitaker, exhibition catalogue, Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museums, Burnley 1982, nos.58/59.
1983
John Gage, Jerrold Ziff, Nicholas Alfrey and others, J.M.W. Turner, à l’occasion du cinquantième anniversaire du British Council, exhibition catalogue, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris 1983, p.203, no.126.
1984
David Hill, In Turner’s Footsteps: Through the Hills and Dales of Northern England, London 1984, pp.31, 53–4, 105, 127.
1986
Eric Shanes, J.M.W. Turner: The Foundations of Genius, exhibition catalogue, Taft Museum, Cincinnati 1986, no.30.
2006
Emma House, Michael Rudd and Paul Clark, Joseph Mallord William Turner: Tours of Durham and Richmondshire, exhibition catalogue, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle 2006, no.28.
This is the right page of a double-page spread continued from folio 29 verso (Tate D11570; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 28a, bound opposite), forming a view of Hardraw Force from a more distant viewpoint than the more detailed sketch on the verso (D11547; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 15). The present writer dates Turner’s sketches at Hardraw to Sunday 28 July 1816. See notes to D11570 for Hardraw Force, a related colour study (Tate D25492; Turner Bequest CCXLIII 369) and the finished watercolour, Hardraw Fall (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge),1 originally painted about 1816–17 for Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s General History of the County of York and engraved by Samuel Middiman in 1818 for the completed part, History of Richmondshire.
Finberg mistakenly treated this page as part of a double-page spread with D11549 (Turner Bequest CXLVIII 16, now bound as folio 38 recto). The mistake had been noticed and the book rebound accordingly before the present writer’s 1984 book.
David Hill
May 2009
How to cite
David Hill, ‘Hardraw Force 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www