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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of York from the North-West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of York from the North-West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Distant View of York from the North-West 1816
D10921
Turner Bequest CXLIV 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘v blue’ over hills in distance, left
Very faint trace of an inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, top right, and another in blue or red ink ‘29’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 29’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records a distant view of York from the north-west, taken from the high ground approaching Little Ouseburn as Turner travelled from York towards Boroughbridge on the road from Green Hammerton to Aldborough.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Distant View of York 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-distant-view-of-york-from-the-north-west-r1144108, accessed 19 April 2024.