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 Wensleydale from above Middleham 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wensleydale from above Middleham’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
Wensleydale from above Middleham 1816
D11409
Turner Bequest CXLVI 25a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Watermarked ‘H S[ALMON]’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Brown’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 26 recto (D11410) opposite, recording the panorama of Upper Wensleydale from a viewpoint on Middleham Gallops to the south-west of the castle, panning through north-east and east to take in Middleham Church and Castle, and the view down Wensleydale towards Jervaulx Abbey. This sketch continues to the right the panorama from the same viewpoint begun in the north-west and north on the preceding spread, folios 24 verso–25 recto (D11407–D11408).
See folio 22 verso (D11403) CXLVI 22a for general notes on Middleham.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Wensleydale from above Middleham 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-wensleydale-from-above-middleham-r1143537, accessed 27 April 2024.