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 The River Greta, near Brignall Church 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Greta, near Brignall Church’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
The River Greta, near Brignall Church 1816
D11571
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Dark’, ‘L B’, ‘L’ around rocks at centre
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 29’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view looks down the River Greta from the riverbank close by Brignall Church. See notes to folio 19 verso (D11571; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 29, now bound opposite), for Turner’s work around Brignall in this and other sketchbooks used in 1816. The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches at Brignall to Thursday 1 August 1816.

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The River Greta, near Brignall Church 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-the-river-greta-near-brignall-church-r1143695, accessed 18 April 2024.