Joseph Mallord William Turner Richmond from the West 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Richmond from the West 1816
D11541
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 12
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Watermarked ‘J WH[ATMAN | 18[15]’
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink (now very faint) ‘Continues from Richmond | p ..?’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 12’ bottom right
Watermarked ‘J WH[ATMAN | 18[15]’
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink (now very faint) ‘Continues from Richmond | p ..?’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 12’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.426, CXLVIII 12, as ‘Continuation of previous drawing ...View of Richmond from the Moors’.
1975
Malcolm Cormack, J.M.W. Turner, R.A. 1775–1851: A Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolours in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge 1975, pp.52–3, no.25.
1979
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.394, no.808.
1979
Eric Shanes, Turner’s Picturesque Views in England and Wales 1825–1838, London 1979, p.156.
1980
David Hill, Stanley Warburton, Mary Tussey and others, Turner in Yorkshire, exhibition catalogue, York City Art Gallery 1980, p.93, no.148.
1984
David Hill, In Turner’s Footsteps: Through the Hills and Dales of Northern England, London 1984, pp.31, 67, 127.
This is the right part of a double-page spread continued from folio 22 verso (D11540; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 11a, now bound opposite), recording a distant view of Richmond from the west, high above the left bank of the River Swale, looking downstream to the town with beyond the plains of north Yorkshire stretching to the distant escarpment of the North Yorkshire Moors. The present writer has dated this sketch to Tuesday 30 July 1816. The direction of light on the castle keep indicates late afternoon. See notes to D11540 for a sketch, perhaps made the previous afternoon as Turner approached Richmond from Swaledale, in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11231; Turner Bequest CXLV 115a), a related studio colour study (Tate D17204; Turner Bequest CXCVII N) and a finished watercolour of Richmond, Yorkshire (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)1 based on the present sketch.
David Hill
May 2009
How to cite
David Hill, ‘Richmond from the West 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www