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 6 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner From Sutton Bank, Looking North to Whitestone Cliff and Gormire Lake c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘From Sutton Bank, Looking North to Whitestone Cliff and Gormire Lake’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 294 Recto:
From Sutton Bank, Looking North to Whitestone Cliff and Gormire Lake c.1816
D11894
Turner Bequest CXLIX 294
Pencil on white wove paper, 149 x 93 mm
There is the trace of an inscription in red ink ‘294’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 294’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn while working through the sketchbook in the reverse direction to the numbered sequence, this is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 293 verso opposite (D11893), recording the view from the bend about halfway up the Sutton Bank road (see notes to folios 295 recto and 294 verso; D11896, D11895), looking west and north-west to Gormire Lake in the middle distance just to the left of centre, and to Whitestone Cliff above right. The previous page spread in the sequence (from the back, folios 295 recto–294 verso; D11896–D11895) records the view south from exactly the same viewpoint and this continues the scan across the view to the right. There is a similar view in the sketchbook (from the back, folios 290 recto–289 verso; D11886–D11885).
For Sutton Bank see D11896.

David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘From Sutton Bank, Looking North to Whitestone Cliff and Gormire Lake c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, 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-from-sutton-bank-looking-north-to-whitestone-cliff-and-r1144039, accessed 27 April 2024.