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 Knaresborough Castle from the East, Looking to St John's Church 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Knaresborough Castle from the East, Looking to St John's Church’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 106 Recto:
Knaresborough Castle from the East, Looking to St John’s Church 1816
D11040
Turner Bequest CXLIV 106
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Trace of an inscription, possibly John Ruskin, in red ink top left
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 106’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records the view from close to the east side of the keep of Knaresborough Castle, which dominates the left half of the view, panning right across the River Nidd and the High Bridge, to St John’s Church at the right, with Conyngham Hall in the distance below the horizon to the left of the church.
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David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Knaresborough Castle from the East, Looking to St John’s Church 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-castle-from-the-east-looking-to-st-johns-r1144229, accessed 19 April 2024.