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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 4 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Semer Water from the North with Addleborough in the Distance 1816

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Semer Water from the North with Addleborough in the Distance’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Semer Water from the North with Addleborough in the Distance 1816
D11448
Turner Bequest CXLVII 4
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sim Water’ bottom left
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘279’ bottom right and ‘4’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVII 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right part of a double-page spread continued from folio 3 verso (D11447) opposite, recording the view south to Semer Water and Countersett from the Bainbridge road. Turner sketched a similar view in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11292; Turner Bequest CXLV 146a), which accompanied him on the same tour. The Stake Pass road over which Turner had recently travelled from Wharfedale can be seen in the distance to the left. The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches of Semer Water to Friday 26 July 1816.

David Hill
February 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Semer Water from the North with Addleborough in the Distance 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2009, 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-semer-water-from-the-north-with-addleborough-in-the-distance-r1143582, accessed 24 April 2024.