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 3 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ripon Minster and the Ure Bridge from the North 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ripon Minster and the Ure Bridge from the North’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Ripon Minster and the Ure Bridge from the North 1816
D11382
Turner Bequest CXLVI 8
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bank with Cattle’, ‘L Lime’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in blue ink ‘8’ top right and ‘330’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CXLVI 8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch revisits a subject first sketched in 1797 (Tate D01098; Turner Bequest XXXVI D). The comparison shows much greater perceptual dynamism in the present sketch; see also comments on folio 9 recto (D11383). A similar view, but from the downstream side of the bridge, was taken by Jean-Baptiste Chatelain about 1745 (York City Art Gallery).
Technical notes:
The page is darkened by over-exposure during nineteenth century exhibition.
Verso:
Blank

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Ripon Minster and the Ure Bridge from the North 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-ripon-minster-and-the-ure-bridge-from-the-north-r1143509, accessed 22 November 2024.