Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British

Title:

Ingleborough from Chapel-Le-Dale

Date:

between 1810 and 1815

Materials & Techniques:

Watercolor, graphite and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 11 x 15 1/2 inches (27.9 x 39.4 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Watermark: J Whatman | Turkey Mill

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1975.4.1618

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

Associated Places:

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)

Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19)

Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20)

Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04)

Publications:

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 122-23, no. I.19, pl. 99, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, pp. 362-3, No. 547, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Andrew Wilton, Turner and the sublime, British Museum Publications, London, 1980, p. 123, no. 29, pl. 13, NJ18 T85 W579 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 106-107, no. 45, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)

Gallery Label:

Turner’s subject is the great mountain of Ingleborough in the Yorkshire dales seen during a dramatic electrical storm. The stormy weather suggests a chain of associations extending back to James Thomson’s famous poem The Seasons (1726–30), a celebration of God’s creation that blended allegorical content with naturalistic description and treated storms as expressions of the hand of God acting in nature. Turner’s turbulent landscape demands to be taken as high art, a profound exploration of the natural world that at the same time raises the deeper questions of human existence. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5464