Joseph Mallord William Turner

Here Turner records the view towards Brignall Church, looking up the River Greta, from a viewpoint slightly more distant and higher than in a foregoing sketch on folio 29 recto (D11487; see catalogue notes), but closer and lower than in one in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11213; Turner Bequest CXLV 106) used on the same tour. The present sketch formed the basis of a studio watercolour Brignall Church (destroyed in a fire in the nineteenth century)1 engraved for Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire, part of the projected seven-volume General History of the County of York (see Introduction to the sketchbook), and published in 1822.