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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures with Guns and Dogs on the Moors above Hall Beck Gill c.1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 301 Verso:
Figures with Guns and Dogs on the Moors above Hall Beck Gill c.1816
D11906
Turner Bequest CXLIX 301a
Pencil on white wove paper, 149 x 93 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn as Turner worked through the sketchbook from the back, and thus in reverse to the present numbering, this is the right half of a double-page spread continued from folio 302 recto opposite (D11907), opposite, recording a grouse shoot on the moors above Hall Beck Gill (see notes to folio 302 verso; D11908). The location is near Farnley Hall, the Yorkshire home of Turner’s friend and patron Walter Fawkes, and the subject is related in general terms to a sketch in the Large Farnley sketchbook (Tate D09024; Turner Bequest CXXVIII 8) and thence to a finished watercolour, Grouse Shooting (Wallace Collection, London)1 painted for Sir William Pilkington of Chevet Hall, Wakefield, a friend of Fawkes.

David Hill
October 2008

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.361 no.535.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Figures with Guns and Dogs on the Moors above Hall Beck Gill 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-figures-with-guns-and-dogs-on-the-moors-above-hall-beck-gill-r1144051, accessed 28 March 2024.