Joseph Mallord William Turner

Gibside from the River Derwent

1817

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Raby Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 232 × 328 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D40724

Catalogue entry

This part of Turner’s view of the castellated north front of Gibside, a brief continuation of the main view on folio 8 recto opposite (D12270; CLVI 7), is not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory, where he notes under CLVI 7: ‘Apparently continued on another page, which is now missing.’1 The recto of the present leaf (D12265) is CLVI 4, indicating either that the leaves of the book were bound in a different sequence or that some or all were loose at in Finberg’s time, since the continuity of the composition across the two pages as now bound is self-evidently correct.
1
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.447.
Technical notes:
There is staining around an old repair to a tear half way down the left-hand edge.

Matthew Imms
February 2010

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