# View of Farnley Hall in Yorkshire

- By: Joseph Mallord William Turner (London, 1775–1851)
- Date: 1808 - 1825
- Medium: paper, deck paint, watercolor (paint)
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 285 mm x width 396 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1990-40--6785ef75ed17566351c5b825f383a44f)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/YgTof/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.