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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 4 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Whitbarrow Scar and Witherslack Church from near Lindale 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Whitbarrow Scar and Witherslack Church from near Lindale’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Whitbarrow Scar and Witherslack Church from near Lindale 1816
D11504
Turner Bequest CXLVII 38
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Corn’, ‘P Bog’, ‘P’
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘279’ bottom right and ‘38’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVII 38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main sketch here is taken from the road from Lindale to Witherslack, under Newton Fell, looking north and north-east, with the distant summits of the High Street group of Lake District fells to the left, Witherslack Church in the centre distance and the escarpment of Whitbarrow Scar to the right. It continues above and pans around to the right (east) to include Milnthorpe Sands. Turner sketched a similar subject in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11193–D11192; Turner Bequest CXLV 96–95a).
There are also a few additional lines, continuing the sketch of Kirkby Lonsdale Bridge from folio 37 verso opposite (D11503).

David Hill
February 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Whitbarrow Scar and Witherslack Church from near Lindale 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2009, 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-whitbarrow-scar-and-witherslack-church-from-near-lindale-r1143639, accessed 11 January 2025.