Joseph Mallord William Turner Hardraw Force 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Hardraw Force 1816
D11547
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 15
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Dark Wa’
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 15’ top left, inverted
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Dark Wa’
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 15’ top left, inverted
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 15, as ‘A waterfall’.
1975
Malcolm Cormack, J.M.W. Turner, R.A. 1775–1851: A Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolours in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge 1975, p.45, no.17 as ‘Hardraw’ ( Turner Bequest number mistakenly given as ‘CLXVII’).
1979
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, London 1979, p.366, no.574.
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).
1981
Peter Bicknell, Beauty, Horror and Immensity: Picturesque Landscape in Britain, 1750–1850, exhibition catalogue, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1981, no.120.
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, 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.
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.
For Hardraw Force see folio 29 verso (D11570; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 28a). This is a near view, but Turner also sketched the fall from a more distant viewpoint and in somewhat less detail across D11570 and folio 30 recto (D11548; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 15a). The present writer dates Turner’s sketches at Hardraw to Sunday 28 July 1816.
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