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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Newton Fell and Whitbarrow Scar from near Grange, with a View over Morecambe Bay to Milnthorpe 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Newton Fell and Whitbarrow Scar from near Grange, with a View over Morecambe Bay to Milnthorpe’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 96 Recto:
Newton Fell and Whitbarrow Scar from near Grange, with a View over Morecambe Bay to Milnthorpe 1816
D11193
Turner Bequest CXLV 96
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mill’ or ‘Mile’ top right, in either case for Milnthorpe
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘96’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV 96’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this records the view from higher ground immediately east of Grange-over-Sands, looking north to east-north-east with Lindale and Newton Fell to the left, and Whitbarrow Scar in the distance towards the right and continued to the right above to include the view over the Kent Estuary to Milnthorpe. Turner sketched similar material from a viewpoint at the other side of Newton Fell, closer to Witherslack and Whitbarrow Scar, in the Yorkshire 4 sketchbook (Tate D11504; Turner Bequest CXLVII 38). The present author has dated Turner’s sketches in this area to Monday 5 August 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

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See Hill 1984, pp.78–83.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Newton Fell and Whitbarrow Scar from near Grange, with a View over Morecambe Bay to Milnthorpe 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-newton-fell-and-whitbarrow-scar-from-near-grange-with-a-view-r1201779, accessed 31 May 2025.