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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Knaresborough from the West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Knaresborough from the West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto:
Knaresborough from the West 1816
D11419
Turner Bequest CXLVI 31
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Stamped in brown ‘CXLVI 31’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Knaresborough from the west above the right bank of the River Nidd, with St John’s Church to the left, the High Bridge in the centre middle distance and the castle on the crag top to the right. On the same occasion Turner also sketched details of the castle and church from the same western aspect in the Yorkshire 1 sketchbook (Tate D11038; Turner Bequest CXLIV 104a).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Knaresborough from the West 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-knaresborough-from-the-west-r1143547, accessed 26 April 2024.