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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Durham Cathedral: Looking from the Crossing into the Nave and North Transept 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Durham Cathedral: Looking from the Crossing into the Nave and North Transept’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Durham Cathedral: Looking from the Crossing into the Nave and North Transept 1797
D01013
Turner Bequest XXXV 10
Pencil on white wove paper, 370 x 274 mm
Part watermark ‘1796’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 10’ bottom right
This is one of three pencil studies of the interior of Durham Cathedral in this book; the others are on folios 17 recto and 18 recto (D01015, D01016; Turner Bequest XXXV 12, 13). Further views in the city of Durham are on folios 16 recto, 19 recto and 21 recto (D01014, D01017, D01091; Turner Bequest XXXV 11, 14, 89); and see also the view of the Elvet Bridge, Durham, in the contemporary North of England sketchbook (Tate D00937; Turner Bequest XXXIV 31).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed in a later hand ‘32’ (circled in pencil); and by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘Durham AJF’ and ‘141.10’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Durham Cathedral: Looking from the Crossing into the Nave and North Transept 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-durham-cathedral-looking-from-the-crossing-into-the-nave-and-r1150179, accessed 18 April 2024.