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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner York: The Old Ouse Bridge and St William's Chapel 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘York: The Old Ouse Bridge and St William's Chapel’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
York: The Old Ouse Bridge and St William’s Chapel 1797
D01074
Turner Bequest XXXV 72
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Ouse Br’ bottom left
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 72’ bottom left, descending vertically
A more general view of the Ouse Bridge, from downstream, is on folio 84 recto (D01071; Turner Bequest XXXV 69). Drawn with the page turned horizontally, here the view is from the north shore of the river, looking across to St William’s Chapel.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by John Ruskin in brown ink ‘101’ (circled); ?in a later hand in blue crayon ‘21’; and by A.J. Finberg ‘141.72’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘York: The Old Ouse Bridge and St William’s Chapel 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-the-old-ouse-bridge-and-st-williams-chapel-r1150251, accessed 24 April 2024.