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 Wharfedale from the West Chevin, above Otley c.1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wharfedale from the West Chevin, above Otley’ c.1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
Wharfedale from the West Chevin, above Otley circa 1817
D10402
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 38a
Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bilberry’ within image lower left of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s title does not seem right and instead this drawing, made with the sketchbook inverted and continuing slightly on folio 39 (D10403), forms a double-spread view of Wharfedale with Otley very lightly indicated in the middle distance on the left. The separate drawing called by Finberg ‘part of the Wharfe valley’ is on D10403 and is a more detailed vignette of the same view of Otley with the church and bridge. There is a more detailed panorama from a similar viewpoint across folios 39 verso, 40 verso–41 (D10404, D10406– D10407).
See Introduction and notes to folio 1 (D10343) for Turner’s visits to Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall and his views of Wharfedale in this sketchbook.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Wharfedale from the West Chevin, above Otley 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-wharfedale-from-the-west-chevin-above-otley-r1131630, accessed 25 April 2024.