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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > County Durham and Northumberland 1817 > Raby Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bishop Auckland: Auckland Castle and the Wear Valley 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bishop Auckland: Auckland Castle and the Wear Valley’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Bishop Auckland: Auckland Castle and the Wear Valley 1817
D12305
Turner Bequest CLVI 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 232 x 328 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Deer’ bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘26’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLVI 26’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Wear Valley is seen from the north-east, looking upstream towards Newton Cap Bridge, since partly obscured by Newton Cap Viaduct on the near side. Towards the lower left are deer in Auckland Castle’s park. The view continues towards the castle itself on folio 26 verso opposite (D12304; CLVI 25a). There is a single-page sketch from a similar viewpoint on the verso of the present leaf (D12306; CLVI 26a). As now bound and foliated, these Bishop Auckland views fall among the sketches of Raby Castle and its surroundings which fill the rest of the second half of the sketchbook, from folio 17 recto (D12298; CLVI 22a) to folio 32 recto (D12309; CLVI 28).
There is also a two-page view from a little further south on folios 15 verso–16 recto (D12294, D12307; CLVI 20–27), the entries for which include details of further views of the site in Turner’s contemporary Durham, North Shore sketchbook.
Technical notes:
The page is rather rubbed towards the right, as is the corresponding outer section of the other half of the view.

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Bishop Auckland: Auckland Castle and the Wear Valley 1817 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-bishop-auckland-auckland-castle-and-the-wear-valley-r1139502, accessed 19 April 2024.