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 Ouse Bridge, York, from the Junction of the Rivers Ouse and Foss 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ouse Bridge, York, from the Junction of the Rivers Ouse and Foss’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Ouse Bridge, York, from the Junction of the Rivers Ouse and Foss 1816
D10904
Turner Bequest CXLIV 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘... top of ch x’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread, continued to the right on folio 20 (D10905), opposite, recording the view from the left bank of the River Ouse, just below its junction with the River Foss, looking north to the Ouse Bridge, with (from left to right, across the spread) the tower of St Martin-cum-Gregory, the spire of All Saints, North Street, Ouse Bridge, Clifford’s Tower with the spire of St Mary’s, Castlegate beyond and behind that the Minster, with the entrance to the Foss in the right foreground. The panorama is continued further to the right on a succeeding folio 21 (D10906) to include Castle Mills Bridge and the New Debtor’s Prison (1709) beyond.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Ouse Bridge, York, from the Junction of the Rivers Ouse and Foss 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-ouse-bridge-york-from-the-junction-of-the-rivers-ouse-and-r1144091, accessed 25 April 2024.