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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The West Lodge Gates, Farnley Hall with Otley Bridge Beyond; Details of Cornices, Etc., of Gate Posts 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The West Lodge Gates, Farnley Hall with Otley Bridge Beyond; Details of Cornices, Etc., of Gate Posts’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The West Lodge Gates, Farnley Hall with Otley Bridge Beyond; Details of Cornices, Etc., of Gate Posts 1818
D12019
Turner Bequest CLIII 14a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W[h]arfe’, ‘16’ [the number of courses of quoins up the angle of the left lodge]
 
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 D12020; Turner Bequest CLIII 15, opposite, recording the West Lodges at Farnley Hall, with Otley Bridge seen through the gates in the distance. This page also has several architectural details of the doorway, gate pier, pinnacle and cornice of a lodge, the end of a balustrade and various counts and measurements. The West Chevin road can be seen in the distance just to the right of the left-hand lodge. The main sketch on the present page served as the basis of a watercolour, West Lodges, Farnley Hall (private collection),1 painted for Walter Fawkes about 1818 and numbered and named as ‘19 Old Lodge’ in the list of Farnley and related subjects compiled by Turner in the present sketchbook (Tate D12013; Turner Bequest CLIII 11a).
A sketch in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook of 1816 (Tate D11042; Turner Bequest CXLV 1) perhaps shows a study of (or for) a detail of one of the gate piers. Turner sketched some preliminary designs for lodge gates at Farnley, relating to both to the West and East Lodges (Tate D34796; Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 329).
For the date of the lodges and the possibility that they were designed by Turner, see notes to D12020.

David Hill
June 2009

1
Wilton 1979, no.588

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The West Lodge Gates, Farnley Hall with Otley Bridge Beyond; Details of Cornices, Etc., of Gate Posts 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-west-lodge-gates-farnley-hall-with-otley-bridge-beyond-r1146652, accessed 23 November 2024.