The Valley of the Washburn, Otley Chevin in the distance

JMW Turner (1775 - 1851)

Leeds Art Gallery

1818 - 1818

This is one of a series of watercolours painted near and at Farnley Hall, Yorkshire, the home of Turner's patron Walter Fawkes. There are around forty paintings in the series, completed between 1815 and 1824, of the area surrounding the River Wharfe.

• Medium: watercolour and bodycolour
• Dimensions: 33 x 41 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £20000 ( Total: £135,863)
• ArtFunded in: 1997
• Vendor: Christie's

Provenance

Walter Fawkes, Farnley Hall. By descent to W.R. Fawkes. Christie's, London, 1937 (470 gns, to Leggatt). Dr. Rosamund Harding, 1951. J.D. Harding Trust, 1980. The Trustees of the W.A.H. Harding Trust; Christie's 1983.

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