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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Whernside from the South, Looking over Chapel-Le-Dale 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Whernside from the South, Looking over Chapel-Le-Dale’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 141 Recto:
Whernside from the South, Looking over Chapel-Le-Dale 1816
D11279
Turner Bequest CXLV 140
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Partial watermark ‘I & E | 1’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Whernside’ top centre and ‘Chapel Vale’ at centre
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘140’ top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV 140’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is taken from the Ingleton road looking north over Chapel-Le-Dale to the distant peak of Whernside. The sketch is out-of-sequence here amongst those at Askrigg in Wensleydale, and was made towards the end of the tour when Turner was using up blank pages in the nearly full sketchbook. The present author has dated Turner’s sketches at Chapel-Le-Dale to Saturday 10 August 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.93–100.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Whernside from the South, Looking over Chapel-Le-Dale 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-whernside-from-the-south-looking-over-chapel-le-dale-r1201866, accessed 02 August 2025.