Joseph Mallord William Turner

Aysgarth Church from the Church Path, Looking East over Wensleydale; Bolton Castle in the Distance

1816

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Yorkshire 4 Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 125 × 206 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D11466
Turner Bequest CXLVII 16

Catalogue entry

This sketch records the view from the still-extant church path through fields to the west of Aysgarth, looking east 1 over Aysgarth Church down Wensleydale, with Bolton Castle (see folio 17 recto; D11468) in the distance to the extreme left. The Belvedere Temple (see folio 12 recto; D11460) can just be made out against trees in the middle distance to the right.

Turner sketched similar views in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11268, D11269, D11371; Turner Bequest CXLV 134a, 135, 187), which accompanied him on the same tour.

David Hill
February 2009

Hill 1984 mistakenly gives west.

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