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 Ripon Minster, from the North-East 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ripon Minster, from the North-East’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
Ripon Minster, from the North-East 1816
D10935
Turner Bequest CXLIV 36a
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Watermarked ‘1813’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘6’ (chancel windows, each with) ‘5’ (bars to their tracery).
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a close study of Ripon Minster from the same north-easterly aspect as the preceding sketches on folios 35 and 35 verso and the recto of the present leaf (D10932, D10933–D10934). Turner records a detail of one of the nave windows, bottom right, and of the top of one of the transept finials, top right.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Ripon Minster, from the North-East 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-ripon-minster-from-the-north-east-r1144123, accessed 18 April 2024.