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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner From Sutton Bank Looking South and West to Roulston Scar and Hood Hill c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘From Sutton Bank Looking South and West to Roulston Scar and Hood Hill’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 291 Recto:
From Sutton Bank Looking South and West to Roulston Scar and Hood Hill c.1816
D11888
Turner Bequest CXLIX 291
Pencil on white wove paper, 149 x 93 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wrightson Kirby Black Horse Pavement’ along the bottom edge and ‘Road’ above
There is the trace of an inscription in red ink ‘291’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 291’ top left corner, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 290 verso opposite (D11887), recording the view from above the Sutton Bank road looking west and south to Hood Hill in the centre of the spread with Roulston Scar at the left. See notes to D11887 for other spreads in this sketchbook depicting the whole panorama from north to south on Sutton Bank; and, for Sutton Bank generally, folio 295 recto (D11896).
Turner’s inscription here possibly refers to inns in the area. ‘Kirby’ could refer to Kirby Moorside, a few miles east on the road between Helmsley and Pickering, in the direction Turner appears to have been travelling. ‘Black Horse Pavement’ could refer to the Black Horse Inn in Pavement at York. The latter had been the subject of a sketch made in 1797 (Tate D01068; Turner Bequest XXXV 66) and was possibly the inn he stayed in on that previous occasion.

David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘From Sutton Bank Looking South and West to Roulston Scar and Hood Hill c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-from-sutton-bank-looking-south-and-west-to-roulston-scar-and-r1144033, accessed 11 January 2025.