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

This slight view south-west to Auckland Castle (indicated by the pinnacles of St Peter’s Chapel at the top left) and Newton Cap Bridge over the River Wear is from a similar angle as the double-page drawing overleaf on folios 26 verso and 27 recto (D12304, D12305; Turner Bequest CLVI 25a–26). 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.