The Woodwalk, Farnley Hall: PD.50-1958

Awaiting location update

Titles

The Woodwalk, Farnley Hall

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Turner, Joseph Mallord William

Entities

Drawing

Notes

History note: Walter Fawkes, Farnley Hall, by descent to the Rev. Ayscough Fawkes, not in sale Christie's, 27 June 1890; F. Stevenson, 1912; R. Norton, sold Christie's, 26 May 1919, lot 130, bt. Sampson; Herbert Dean, his Sale, Sotheby's, 19 November 1947, lot 134, as frontispiece, bt. Agnew's (£380); Major Horton Fawkes; Agnew's 'The Property of a Gentleman' (Gilbert Davis) sold Sotheby's, 19 March 1958, lot 105, bt. Messrs. John Mitchell

Legal notes

From the Fairhaven Fund.

Measurements and weight

Height: 292 mm
Width: 400 mm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1958) by Messrs. John Mitchell

Dating

Production date: circa AD 1818

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Bodycolour
Graphite
Gum arabic

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( brown)

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour and bodycolour over graphite with gum arabic on brown paper

References and bibliographic entries

Turner page(s): 253
Turner's Watercolours at Farnley Hall page(s): 26
(Unknown)
[Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960] page(s): 156
J.M.W. Turner, R.A. 1775-1851; a catalogue of Drawings and Watercolours in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge page(s): 46
The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner
J.M.W. Turner 'A Wonderful Range of Mind'

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.50-1958
Primary reference Number: 13935
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 6 September 2021

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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