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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sunset ?near Farnley Hall c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sunset ?near Farnley Hall’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
Sunset ?near Farnley Hall c.1824
D18477
Turner Bequest CCX 93
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with swift and cursory handling, here Turner records the sun setting in a cloud-strewn sky. This sketch, and those on Tate D18378–D18379; Turner Bequest CCX 41a–42 are almost certainly connected to the sky study and sunset depicted on Tate D18478; Turner Bequest CCX 93a which is believed to have been taken at Farnley Hall, North Yorkshire, on 30 November 1824. Farnley was the estate of Turner’s close friend and patron Sir Walter Fawkes.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sunset ?near Farnley Hall c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sunset-near-farnley-hall-r1181265, accessed 19 September 2024.