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 3 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner In Hackfall Woods, the Weeping Rock 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘In Hackfall Woods, the Weeping Rock’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
In Hackfall Woods, the Weeping Rock 1816
D11394
Turner Bequest CXLVI 16
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in blue ink ‘16’ top right and ‘330’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CXLVI 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of the Weeping Rock in Hackfall woods is drawn inverted in relation to the main sequence of subjects in the sketchbook. See folio 11 verso (D11387) for general notes on Hackfall.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘In Hackfall Woods, the Weeping Rock 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-in-hackfall-woods-the-weeping-rock-r1143521, accessed 26 April 2024.