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 4 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Wycliffe, near Rokeby 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wycliffe, near Rokeby’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
Wycliffe, near Rokeby 1816
D11483
Turner Bequest CXLVII 26a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wy[cliffe]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records the view towards Wycliffe Hall down the River Tees, from a slightly more distant viewpoint than seen on the recto (D11482). Here, the house is just visible beyond the trees at the right. The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches in the Wycliffe area to Thursday 1 August 1816.

David Hill
February 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Wycliffe, near Rokeby 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-wycliffe-near-rokeby-r1143618, accessed 20 April 2024.