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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 5 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lancaster Bridge and Castle from the North-East 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lancaster Bridge and Castle from the North-East’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Lancaster Bridge and Castle from the North-East 1816
D11589
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 38
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Watermarked ‘[WHA]TMAN | [181]5’
Inscribed in pencil ‘38’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right part of a double-page spread continued from folio 7 verso (D11588; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 37a, now bound opposite), recording the view from the left bank of the River Lune looking downstream to Lancaster with Thomas Harrison’s new bridge in the middle distance, and the church and castle beyond. Turner made a preliminary sketch for this, from slightly further away from the bridge, in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11152; Turner Bequest CXLV 74a). The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches of Lancaster to Thursday 8 August 1816.

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Lancaster Bridge and Castle from the North-East 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-lancaster-bridge-and-castle-from-the-north-east-r1143672, accessed 27 April 2024.