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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Hals and Houses in Hals, to the East from the Ilz Valley 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Hals and Houses in Hals, to the East from the Ilz Valley’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
Burg Hals and Houses in Hals, to the East from the Ilz Valley 1840
D31403
Turner Bequest CCCX 64a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. Wh’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Cecilia Powell recognised,1 this horizontal drawing shows the view from the west up to the ruins of Burg Hals beyond houses in the upper part of the village, climbing the narrow neck of land surrounded by a tight meander of the River Ilz, looking downstream at this point; compare folio 63 verso (D31401). The crag and castle are now somewhat softened by vegetation. There is a loose detail of part of the castle at the top right.
For numerous contemporary views of Hals and the ruins on adjacent pages of this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 58 verso (D31391).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Powell 1995, p.244.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Burg Hals and Houses in Hals, to the East from the Ilz Valley 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-burg-hals-and-houses-in-hals-to-the-east-from-the-ilz-valley-r1196191, accessed 26 April 2024.