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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hackfall: Looking North-West from the Rock Walk 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hackfall: Looking North-West from the Rock Walk’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Hackfall: Looking North-West from the Rock Walk 1816
D11389
Turner Bequest CXLVI 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in blue ink ‘13’ top right and ‘330’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CXLVI 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The rock walk at Hackfall is a path cut through crags above the right bank of the river Ure, just downstream of Mowbray Castle.1 The path can be seen to the left, and in the centre of the composition we look upstream to Fisher’s Hall, with the Banqueting Hall on the hilltop to the left.
See folio 11 verso (D11387) for general notes on Hackfall.

David Hill
January 2009

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The original path ran below the crags but has partly collapsed and is disused. The modern path climbs the crags up steps and runs along the top.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Hackfall: Looking North-West from the Rock Walk 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-hackfall-looking-north-west-from-the-rock-walk-r1143516, accessed 26 April 2024.