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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Durham, with the Castle, Cathedral, and Framwellgate Bridge 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Durham, with the Castle, Cathedral, and Framwellgate Bridge’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
View of Durham, with the Castle, Cathedral, and Framwellgate Bridge 1801
D04184
Turner Bequest LXX g
Pencil on white wove paper, 267 x 415 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘O’, ‘X’ and ‘XX’ in the drawing
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed in pencil ‘lxx g’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXX – g’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sheet is of different paper from the Smaller Fonthill sketchbook leaves in general, but is possibly a flyleaf from the same book. For another, more elaborate, view of Durham made like this one on Turner’s tour to Scotland in 1801, see Tate D02239 (Turner Bequest XLVIII 4); Durham views on Smaller Fonthill leaves now in other collections are listed in the sketchbook’s Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View of Durham, with the Castle, Cathedral, and Framwellgate Bridge 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, May 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-of-durham-with-the-castle-cathedral-and-framwellgate-r1180265, accessed 21 November 2024.