Joseph Mallord William Turner The Lune Valley from Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
The Lune Valley from Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard 1816
D11528
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 5a
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 5a
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘for Rich’, ‘D W’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘for Rich’, ‘D W’
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.426, CXLVIII 5a, as ‘A bend of river (probably the Lune)’.
1951
Charles Clare, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, British Painters, London 1951, p.81 reproduced, as ‘Ingleborough’ (sic).
1980
David Hill, Stanley Warburton, Mary Tussey and others, Turner in Yorkshire, exhibition catalogue, York City Art Gallery 1980, p.80, no.122 as ‘Lune Valley from Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard’.
1982
Stanley Warburton, Turner and Dr. Whitaker, exhibition catalogue, Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museums, Burnley 1982, nos.63/64.
1984
David Hill, In Turner’s Footsteps: Through the Hills and Dales of Northern England, London 1984, pp.31, 92–4, 108, 127.
This is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 5 recto (D11521; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 3, now bound opposite), recording the view from the churchyard of Kirkby Lonsdale Church, looking north and north-east up the Lune Valley. The sketch formed the basis of two colour studies (Tate D17187, D17186; Turner Bequest CXCVI W, V) and of a studio watercolour Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard (on the London art market, 2012)1 engraved for Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire and published in 1822. Turner continued the panorama around to the right, to include a view of Ingleborough, in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11125; Turner Bequest CXLV 58a). Elsewhere in the present sketchbook Turner drew a similar view of the Lune Valley hills, from the south and slightly further to the left on folio 2 verso (D11520; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 2a). The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches of Kirkby Lonsdale to Friday 9 August and Saturday 10 August 1816.
David Hill
May 2009
Revised by David Blayney Brown
April 2013
How to cite
David Hill, ‘The Lune Valley from Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2009, revised by David Blayney Brown, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www