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

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Ripon Minster and the Ure Bridge from the North

From Yorkshire 3 Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXLVI

Date 1816

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 125 x 200 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D11382

Turner Bequest CXLVI 8

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

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

Exhibition history

References

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

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2013.