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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Knaresborough from the South-South-East 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Knaresborough from the South-South-East’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Knaresborough from the South-South-East 1816
D11420
Turner Bequest CXLVI 32
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Stamped in brown ‘CXLVI 32’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records a distant view of Knaresborough from above the right bank of the River Nidd to the south-south-east, looking upstream to the Low Bridge, with the House-in-the-Rock to the right. There are a few lines of continuation to the right on folio 31 verso (D40837) opposite. A similar view was painted by Thomas Girtin in 1801 for Edward Lascelles of Harewood House (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Knaresborough from the South-South-East 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-south-south-east-r1143549, accessed 25 April 2024.