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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fawkes Family Picnic Party on the Moors near Farnley Hall 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
A Fawkes Family Picnic Party on the Moors near Farnley Hall 1816
D09882
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 78
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman | 1811’ (lower part of date trimmed at edge of leaf)
Inscribed in pencil ‘CXXXIV. 78’ bottom centre
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 78’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The party presumably comprises members of Walter Fawkes’s household and guests, on the Yorkshire moors near Farnley Hall. For other views at and around Farnley Hall and nearby Yorkshire properties belonging to Fawkes see under folio 1 verso (D09790). There appears to be a small bridge in the distance between the figures towards the right, but otherwise there are no specific landmarks, although the setting may be on the moors north of Farnley, perhaps near the Dovestone, an outcrop recorded on other pages here; see under folio 36 recto (D09799; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 10). Compare the figures gathered outdoors on folio 33 recto (D09791; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 2), and another moorland scene on folio 55 recto (D09850; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 53).
Technical notes:
The sheet is darkened from prolonged exhibition except where the mount protected it around the edges.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Fawkes Family Picnic Party on the Moors near Farnley Hall 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-a-fawkes-family-picnic-party-on-the-moors-near-farnley-hall-r1147389, accessed 19 September 2024.