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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A View from inside Weathercote Cave, Looking out to Daylight 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A View from inside Weathercote Cave, Looking out to Daylight’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
A View from inside Weathercote Cave, Looking out to Daylight 1816
D11060
Turner Bequest CXLV 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Day L’ towards bottom left
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘13’ top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV 13’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the upper (and main) part of a double-page sketch of Weathercote Cave near Ingleton, drawn with the pages turned horizontally, continued below on folio 12 verso opposite (D11059). This sketch appears to be taken from the bottom of the cave looking out to daylight. It was possibly made as a preliminary study for Turner’s main sketch of Weathercote in 1816, in the Yorkshire 4 sketchbook (Tate D11495; Turner Bequest CXLVII 33a). Conditions at the bottom must have been dramatic since the larger sketch records that the cave was ‘half full’ with water pouring in from the normally-dry streambed. The present author has dated Turner’s sketches at Weathercote to Saturday 10 August.1

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.93–100.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A View from inside Weathercote Cave, Looking out to Daylight 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-view-from-inside-weathercote-cave-looking-out-to-daylight-r1201646, accessed 17 May 2024.