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 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Spofforth Castle from the North-West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Spofforth Castle from the North-West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Spofforth Castle from the North-West 1816
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Turner Bequest CXLIV 2a
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Deep ?Ditch’, bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For general notes on Spofforth in this sketchbook see Tate D10869; Turner Bequest CXLV 1a. The prospect here is continued to the right in a separate detail, top right.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Spofforth Castle from the North-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-spofforth-castle-from-the-north-west-r1144058, accessed 18 April 2024.