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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The White Lady Waterfall, Lydford Gorge 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The White Lady Waterfall, Lydford Gorge’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
?The White Lady Waterfall, Lydford Gorge 1814
D09517
Turner Bequest CXXXII 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 152 x 90 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘35’ top right, ascending
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 35’ top right, ascending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Given the adjacent Lydford subjects, this appears to be the Lydford Gorge’s most famous feature, the 100 foot (30 metre) White Lady Waterfall,1 in the deep woods south-west of the village. For other views around Lydford, see under folio 28 recto (D09510).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

1
See ‘Lydford Gorge’, National Trust, accessed 3 November 2011, http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-lydfordgorge.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?The White Lady Waterfall, Lydford Gorge 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, 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-white-lady-waterfall-lydford-gorge-r1147062, accessed 20 September 2024.