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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Farnley Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Valley of the River Wharfe from Caley Crags, Looking West Along Otley Chevin 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Valley of the River Wharfe from Caley Crags, Looking West Along Otley Chevin’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
The Valley of the River Wharfe from Caley Crags, Looking West Along Otley Chevin 1818
D12012
Turner Bequest CLIII 11
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘heather’
Stamped in black ‘CLIII 11’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is the continuation to the right of the previous double-page spread of the view west from Caley Crags (Tate D12009–D12010; Turner Bequest CLIII 9a-10), panning right to include more foreground rocks, and the distant valley of the Wharfe. The main sketch (D12010) served as the basis of a finished watercolour, Deer Shooting at Caley Crags (on the London art market in 2000),1 painted for Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall about 1818, but Turner does not seem to have referred to this continuation in devising the finished composition. The watercolour is cited as ‘22 Rocks West’ in the list of watercolours in hand (or intended) on another page of this sketchbook (D12013; Turner Bequest CLIII 11a).

David Hill
June 2009

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Sotheby’s sale, London, 30 November 2000, lot.25.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Valley of the River Wharfe from Caley Crags, Looking West Along Otley Chevin 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-valley-of-the-river-wharfe-from-caley-crags-looking-west-r1146645, accessed 24 April 2024.