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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Farnley Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Valley of the Wharfe from Caley Crags, Looking West Along Otley Chevin 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Valley of the Wharfe from Caley Crags, Looking West Along Otley Chevin’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
The Valley of the Wharfe from Caley Crags, Looking West Along Otley Chevin 1818
D12010
Turner Bequest CLIII 10
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bracken’
Stamped in black ‘CLIII 10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right part of a double-page spread continued from Tate D12009; Turner Bequest CLIII 9a opposite, and extended further right on D12011; Turner Bequest CLIII 11, following, recording the view from Caley Crags looking west along Otley Chevin, with the Cow and Calf Rocks above Ilkley in the far right distance. This page served as the basis of a finished watercolour, Deer Shooting at Caley Crags (on the London art market in 2000)1 painted for Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall about 1818. For further comment see notes to D12009.

David Hill
June 2009

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Sotheby’s sale, London, 30 November 2000, lot.25.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Valley of the Wharfe from Caley Crags, Looking West Along Otley Chevin 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-valley-of-the-wharfe-from-caley-crags-looking-west-along-r1146643, accessed 22 July 2024.