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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Washburne, with Otley Chevin in the Distance c.1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Washburne, with Otley Chevin in the Distance’ c.1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
The River Washburne, with Otley Chevin in the Distance circa 1817
D10397
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 36
Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Caley’ lower right of centre
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘36’ bottom left, inverted and ‘315’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIX 36’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted and continued on folio 35 verso (D10396), for which see catalogue entry for the subject and the watercolour made from it for Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall (untraced).1.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.372 no.626.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The River Washburne, with Otley Chevin in the Distance c.1817 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-river-washburne-with-otley-chevin-in-the-distance-r1131625, accessed 25 April 2024.