This is the right part of a double-page spread continued from folio 22 verso (
D11540; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 11a, now bound opposite), recording a distant view of Richmond from the west, high above the left bank of the River Swale, looking downstream to the town with beyond the plains of north Yorkshire stretching to the distant escarpment of the North Yorkshire Moors. The present writer has dated this sketch to Tuesday 30 July 1816. The direction of light on the castle keep indicates late afternoon. See notes to
D11540 for a sketch, perhaps made the previous afternoon as Turner approached Richmond from Swaledale, in the
Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate
D11231; Turner Bequest CXLV 115a), a related studio colour study (Tate
D17204; Turner Bequest CXCVII N) and a finished watercolour of
Richmond, Yorkshire (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
1 based on the present sketch.
