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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > North Wales 1799-1801 > Lancashire and North Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliviger Gorge 1799

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliviger Gorge’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
Cliviger Gorge 1799
D01974
Turner Bequest XLV 38a
Pencil on white wove paper, 329 x 225 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this slight sketch is one of four showing the cliffs of Cliviger Gorge (see under folio 37 verso; D01972). This one may include, at top left, the distinctive beaky cliff of Eagle’s Crag above Cornholme, about two miles south east of Holme Chapel. The other drawings of the Gorge are folios 39 verso and 40 verso (D01976, D01978); that on D01972 is another candidate for a view of Eagle’s Crag.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cliviger Gorge 1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cliviger-gorge-r1177849, accessed 30 January 2025.