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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lancaster: The Church and Castle Seen from the North-East, with the Old Bridge over the Lune in the Foreground 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lancaster: The Church and Castle Seen from the North-East, with the Old Bridge over the Lune in the Foreground’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Recto:
Lancaster: The Church and Castle Seen from the North-East, with the Old Bridge over the Lune in the Foreground 1797
D01066
Turner Bequest XXXV 64
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram centre right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 64’ bottom left, descending vertically
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, the medieval bridge recorded here is not extant. Turner made a more distant view of the church and castle from the new aqueduct on the following leaf, folio 80 recto (D01067; Turner Bequest XXXV 65).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘141.64’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Lancaster: The Church and Castle Seen from the North-East, with the Old Bridge over the Lune in the Foreground 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-lancaster-the-church-and-castle-seen-from-the-north-east-r1150243, accessed 05 February 2025.