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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wasset Fell and Bishopdale from above West Burton 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wasset Fell and Bishopdale from above West Burton’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 137 Verso:
Wasset Fell and Bishopdale from above West Burton 1816
D11272
Turner Bequest CXLV 136a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Burton V’ towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is from the junction of lanes below Dove Scar on the old track from West Burton to West Witton, looking south-west over West Burton to Wasset Fell in the centre distance and Bishopdale to the right. A sketch from the same viewpoint in the Yorkshire 4 book (Tate D11457; Turner Bequest CXLVII 10) was made on the same visit. and effectively continues the panorama to the right to include Aysgarth and Wensleydale. The present author has dated this sketch to Sunday 28 July 1816.1 It has previously been mistakenly grouped with sketches of Aysgarth.2

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.52–8.
2
See Hill, Warburton and Tussey 1980, p.79, and Warburton 1982, p.46.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Wasset Fell and Bishopdale from above West Burton 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-wasset-fell-and-bishopdale-from-above-west-burton-r1201859, accessed 05 April 2026.