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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Knaresborough from the Waterside to the West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Knaresborough from the Waterside to the West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
Knaresborough from the Waterside to the West 1816
D11000
Turner Bequest CXLIV 73a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Watermarked ‘1813’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Rock | Wall’ at left and ‘B | Rock’ right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the upper half of a double-page spread, continued on folio 74 (D11001), opposite, recording the waterside of the River Nidd at Knaresborough, looking west towards the castle. Turner sketched the same material but from a slightly higher viewpoint and further right across folios 63 verso–64 of this sketchbook (D10985–D10986). The sketchbook also contains a scattering of other studies of Knaresborough, mostly views from the south, folios 49, 56 verso, 57 and 104 verso (D10957, D10972, D10973, D11038).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Knaresborough from the Waterside to the 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-knaresborough-from-the-waterside-to-the-west-r1144189, accessed 24 April 2024.