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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views Going up to the Trough of Bowland 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views Going up to the Trough of Bowland’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 174 Verso:
Two Views Going up to the Trough of Bowland 1816
D11344
Turner Bequest CXLV 173a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Trough’ twice, above centre and bottom centre, ‘Br G’ and ‘G’ towards top left, and ‘R’ towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The two sketches, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, record successive views towards the Trough of Bowland near Hareden, the subject of another drawing in the present book, on folio 173 recto (D11341; Turner Bequest CXLV 172) and one in the Yorkshire 5 sketchbook (Tate D11560–D11561; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 22a–23). The present author has dated the series to Monday 22 July 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, p.39.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Views Going up to the Trough of Bowland 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-two-views-going-up-to-the-trough-of-bowland-r1201931, accessed 05 April 2026.