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 > The Aqueduct Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures Returning from Shooting near Farnley Hall; Otley Bridge and Newall Hall in the Distance c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures Returning from Shooting near Farnley Hall; Otley Bridge and Newall Hall in the Distance’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Figures Returning from Shooting near Farnley Hall; Otley Bridge and Newall Hall in the Distance c.1816–18
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Turner Bequest CLII 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Watermarked ‘C WIL[LMOTT] | 18[12]’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘gyp[?]’ in sky to right
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘7’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CLII 7’ top right, running vertically
Turner’s view here is taken from near Farnley Hall, looking towards Otley Bridge in the distance to the left, with Newall Hall (demolished 1928) in the centre middle distance. Turner recorded a similar view in a watercolour of The Carriage Drive, Farnley Hall, painted c.1818 for Walter Fawkes of Farnley (private collection).1 The same building is included there, seen from a greater distance.
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Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.369 no.601.
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David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Figures Returning from Shooting near Farnley Hall; Otley Bridge and Newall Hall in the Distance c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, 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-figures-returning-from-shooting-near-farnley-hall-otley-r1147008, accessed 23 November 2024.