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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner York: Pavement, with the Market Cross and All Saints' Church 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘York: Pavement, with the Market Cross and All Saints' Church’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Recto:
York: Pavement, with the Market Cross and All Saints’ Church 1797
D01068
Turner Bequest XXXV 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘York’ bottom left
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre (within the drawing)
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 66’ bottom left, descending vertically
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, the view is taken looking west along Pavement from the church of St Croix, demolished in 1883, to the Market Cross, which was destroyed in 1813, and All Saints’ Church, which survives. Turner scholar David Hill points out that Thomas Girtin (1775–1802) drew almost the same view on his visit to York in 1796; a watercolour of it is in a private collection.1
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Hill 1996, p.143, pl.207.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘141.66’ and ‘XXXV, 66’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘York: Pavement, with the Market Cross and All Saints’ Church 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-york-pavement-with-the-market-cross-and-all-saints-church-r1150245, accessed 24 April 2024.