J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Spofforth from the North-West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Spofforth from the North-West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Spofforth from the North-West 1816
D10872
Turner Bequest CXLIV 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Very faint trace of an inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, bottom right, and another, ‘3’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 3’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a general view of Spofforth Church, village and Castle from the north-west, with a separate detail of the church tower, made from closer and slightly further to the north, above. The sketch was made as Turner set out from Spofforth to Plompton Rocks, the subject of sketches running on from the verso (D10873). Folio 6 verso in this sketchbook (D10879) has a still more distant view of the same aspect of Spofforth, presumably made on the return journey.
For general notes on Spofforth in this sketchbook see D10869; Turner Bequest CXLV 1a.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Spofforth from the North-West 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-spofforth-from-the-north-west-r1144059, accessed 21 May 2024.