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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner York Minster, from the East-North-East, near the River Foss 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘York Minster, from the East-North-East, near the River Foss’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
York Minster, from the East-North-East, near the River Foss 1816
D10912
Turner Bequest CXLIV 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Timber’, ‘Dung’, ‘Ditch’
Inscribed by unknown hand, possibly John Ruskin, in red ink ‘24’, top right, and ‘24’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread recording a view of York from the east-north-east, continued to the right from folio 23 verso (D10911), opposite. Taken from the right bank of the River Foss where it curves round to Layerthorpe Bridge, it includes, from left to right across the spread: Layerthorpe Bridge (with a detail of the continuation of the bridge causeway above); the tower of St Denys, Walmgate in the left distance over the bridge; Layerthorpe Postern; the Church of St Cuthbert, Peasholme Green; the distant spire of St Mary’s, Castlegate; the River Foss in the foreground; and York Minster and Chapter House to right with Monkbar below the crossing tower.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘York Minster, from the East-North-East, near the River 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-york-minster-from-the-east-north-east-near-the-river-foss-r1144099, accessed 24 April 2024.