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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Farnley Hall and Otley from the West Chevin c.1816-17

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Farnley Hall and Otley from the West Chevin’ c.1816-17
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Recto:
Farnley Hall and Otley from the West Chevin circa 1816–17
D10407
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 41
Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Heath’ lower left of centre
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘41’ bottom left, inverted and ‘315’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIX 41’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted and continued on folios 39 verso and 40 verso (D10404, D10406) to form a panorama of Wharfedale from the Chevin. See catalogue entry for D10406 for the subject and the watercolour based on it (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).1
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Wilton 1979, p.371 no.613.
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David Blayney Brown
May 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Farnley Hall and Otley from the West Chevin c.1816–17 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-farnley-hall-and-otley-from-the-west-chevin-r1131635, accessed 13 January 2025.