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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gledhow Hall, Leeds; the Roof and Chimneys 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gledhow Hall, Leeds; the Roof and Chimneys’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Gledhow Hall, Leeds; the Roof and Chimneys 1816
D09858
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 58a
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner here isolates details of the roof and chimneys of Gledhow Hall, seen from the south-west. At the centre right is a slight continuation of trees from another view of the house in its setting on folio 5 recto opposite (D09801; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 12). The subject and other views are discussed in the entry for folio 3 recto (D09805; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 15).

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Gledhow Hall, Leeds; the Roof and Chimneys 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-gledhow-hall-leeds-the-roof-and-chimneys-r1147352, accessed 16 April 2024.