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 20 Recto:
Ouse Bridge, York, from the Junction of the Rivers Ouse and Foss 1816
D10905
Turner Bequest CXLIV 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W R’
Very faint trace of an inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, top right, and another ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread, continued from folio 19 verso (D10904) 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 the following folio 21 (D10906) to include Castle Mills Bridge and the New Debtor’s Prison (1709) beyond.
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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-r1144092, accessed 25 April 2024.