Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Title:
Leeds
Date:
1816
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, scraping out and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 17 inches (29.2 x 43.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: " [...]
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2704
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
factories | cityscape | landscape | genre subject | dogs (animals) | stones | laborers | walls
Associated Places:
England | Europe | United Kingdom | Leeds | Yorkshire
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Thomas Cole's Journey - Atlantic Crossings (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018-01-29 - 2018-05-13)

Thomas Cole's Journey - Atlantic Crossings (The National Gallery, London, 2018-06-13 - 2018-10-07)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

Metropole London 1800 - 1840 (Kulturstiftung Ruhr, 1992-06-04 - 1992-11-08)

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)

English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, cat. no. 37, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)

Timothy J. Barringer, Picturesque and sublime : Thomas Cole's trans-Atlantic inheritance, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018, p. 73, fig. 58, NJ18 .C67 B37 2018 (YCBA)

Timothy J. Barringer, The Englishness of Thomas Cole, University of New Hampshire Press, Durham, NH, 2011, pp.3-4, 5, fig. 1.1 & Pl. I, V2383 (YCBA)

John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 283-84, no. 88, pl. 88, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 273, 275-6, fig. 14, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

David Blayney Brown, Turner's Modern World, Tate Publishing, London, p. 142, no. 105, NJ18.T85 A12 2020a Oversize (YCBA)

Stephen Daniels, Fields of vision, landscape, imagery and national identity in England and the United States , Polity Press, Cambridge, 1994, pp. 116-24, fig. 2, N8213 D35 1994 (YCBA)

English Drawings and Watercolours from the Mellon Collection, The Times (London), issue no. 56195, December 15, 1964, p. 6, Available online: The Times Digital Archive Also available on Microfilm: Film An T482 (SML)

Susan Grace Galassi, Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports : Passages Through Time, New York : The Frick Collection , New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017, p. 15, cat. 12, NJ18 T85 +A12 2017

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 110, 199-200, no. VI.26, pl. 87, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Lady Lever Art Gallery, British watercolours and drawings, Lord Leverhulme's collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery , Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2010, p. 196, fn 1137, N1455 A85 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Frederic Ogee, Turner, les paysages absolus , Hazan, Paris, 2010, p. 199, NJ18 T85 O34 2010 (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 88, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

J. S. Piggott, Turner among the Landscape Engravers I:: Chiaroscuro, Copper, Stone and Wood, Turner Society News, no. 121, Spring 2014, pp. 3-14, NJ18 T85 T86 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, English Landscape 1630-1850, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 273, 275-6, fig. 14, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA)

Eric Shanes, The Dover Mail - by Turner or by ' Girton ' ?, Turner Society News, no. 121, Spring, 2014, pp. 5-6,9 [fn 9], NJ18 T85 T86 (YCBA)

Ian Warrell, J.M.W. Turner, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, pp. 17, 20, fig. 8, NJ18 T85 A12 2007 + (YCBA)

Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, p. 362, No. 544, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, cat. no. 37, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5508