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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner On the Banks of the River Ouse at York 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘On the Banks of the River Ouse at York’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
On the Banks of the River Ouse at York 1816
D10903
Turner Bequest CXLIV 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wall’, ‘White’
Very faint trace of an inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, top right, and another ‘19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread, continued from folio 18 verso (D10902), opposite, taken from under an avenue of trees on the bank of the River Ouse at York. The avenue is almost certainly the Lord Mayor’s Walk, stretching south from the present Skeldergate Bridge, and the sketch is probably the continuation to the right of the river view on the immediately preceding double-page spread, folios 17 verso–18 (D10900–D10901).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘On the Banks of the River Ouse at York 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-on-the-banks-of-the-river-ouse-at-york-r1144090, accessed 18 January 2025.