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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Durham: Looking towards Framwellgate Bridge from below the Cathedral, with the Castle at the Right 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Durham: Looking towards Framwellgate Bridge from below the Cathedral, with the Castle at the Right 1801
D02507
Turner Bequest LIII 27a
Pencil on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 28 recto opposite (D02508). For other views of Durham in this sketchbook, see under folio 15 verso (D02483).
Framwellgate Bridge is sometimes known as Ralph Flambard’s Bridge after its original sponsor, Ranulph Flambard, Prince Bishop of Durham, who built it in 1120. The other medieval bridge in Durham is Elvet Bridge, dating from forty years later; see folios 25 verso–26 recto (D02503–D02504), and drawings in the Tweed and Lakes sketchbook of 1797 (Tate D01014, D01017, D01018; Turner Bequest XXXV 11, 14, 15).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Durham: Looking towards Framwellgate Bridge from below the Cathedral, with the Castle at the Right 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-durham-looking-towards-framwellgate-bridge-from-below-the-r1178529, accessed 29 March 2024.