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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Malham Cove 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Malham Cove’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Malham Cove 1808
D06839
Turner Bequest CIII 10
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 226 x 295 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CIII 10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Turner’s visit to the Ribble Valley, Craven Dales and into Yorkshire, to Farnley Hall, see Introduction to the sketchbook; a drawing of Giggleswick near Malham is on folio 12 (D06834; Turner Bequest CIII 5). This drawing of Malham Cove served as the basis of a watercolour (British Museum, London),1 perhaps made for Walter Fawkes of Farnley around the same time as Yorkshire subjects, circa 1808–10.2
1
Wilton 1979, p.360 no.533.
2
Ibid.
Verso:

David Blayney Brown
May 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Malham Cove 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-malham-cove-r1134494, accessed 26 April 2024.