View of Farnley Hall in Yorkshire
Also titled Gezicht op Farnley Hall in Yorkshire
Joseph Mallord William Turner (London, 1775–1851)
1808 - 1825
- Medium
- paper, deck paint, watercolor (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 285 mm x width 396 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The house of Turner’s friend, the collector Walter Fawkes, is depicted in the distance of this watercolour. It is a free interpretation of reality, dominated by atmospheric light effects. Turner did not paint watercolours of this kind out of doors, but based them on drawn studies of nature. In his studio, he would first make a schematic colour sketch of the composition before actually beginning to paint a watercolour.
