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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Spofforth from the North-West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Spofforth from the North-West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
Distant View of Spofforth from the North-West 1816
D10879
Turner Bequest CXLIV 6a
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘corn’ bottom left and ‘Spofforth’ bottom right.
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This distant view of Spofforth Church, village and Castle from the north-west, with weathered gritstone outcrops in the foreground, was evidently drawn as Turner made his way to Spofforth from Plompton Rocks. There are a number of such outcrops between Spofforth and Plompton Rocks. A previous sketch on folio 3 of the sketchbook (D10872), recording a view of Spofforth from the same aspect, was presumably made on the outward journey to Plompton.
For Spofforth in this sketchbook see folio 1 verso (D10869).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Distant View of 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-distant-view-of-spofforth-from-the-north-west-r1144066, accessed 17 May 2024.