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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 3 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Masham Bridge and Church from the North 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Masham Bridge and Church from the North’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Masham Bridge and Church from the North 1816
D11397
Turner Bequest CXLVI 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W Cock’ above spire; ‘W Gully’ lower left
Inscribed by an unknown hand in blue ink ‘18’ top right and ‘330’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CXLVI 18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records the view from the left bank of the River Ure, looking downstream to the bridge and church at Masham, beyond. The view is now completely lost to tree growth. The Yorkshire 1 sketchbook (Tate D10917–D10918, D10950; Turner Bequest CXLIV 26a–27, 45) contains other sketches of Masham made on the same visit.
The page is darkened by over-exposure.
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David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Masham Bridge and Church from the North 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-masham-bridge-and-church-from-the-north-r1143524, accessed 25 April 2024.