By Kind Permission of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
By Kind Permission of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
Engraved by Scott after Turner. ( Yorkshire Series. Rawlinson 172. Wilton 562.)
In Modern Painters V (1860), a branch from this picture is reproduced by wood engraving to illustrate Turner 's mastery of foreshortening in the composition of the branches ( Works, 7.93-4).
J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851
Aske Hall c.1820
Watercolour, 28x41.3cm
Engraving:
Engraved by J. Scott, 1820
Copper engraving, 19x28cm
Engraved for Whitaker's 'History of Richmondshire', 1818-23
Provenance: Abel Buckley; Humphrey Roberts, ?sale Christie's 23/5/1908 (284), bt. Gooden; Marchioness of Zetland, sale Sotheby's 30/11/1960 (91), bt. Pantzer, who later sold it back to the Marchioness of Zetland
Further Comments: There is a drawing of this title at the Astley Cheetham Art Gallery, Staly Bridge, Cheshire, but it is thought to be a copy by another artist.
Collection: Marchioness of Zetland, Aske, Richmond, Yorksire, UK