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 The View West along Middleham Ridge, with Coverdale to the Left and Middleham Castle to the Right 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The View West along Middleham Ridge, with Coverdale to the Left and Middleham Castle to the Right’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
The View West along Middleham Ridge, with Coverdale to the Left and Middleham Castle to the Right 1816
D11405
Turner Bequest CXLVI 23a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Watermarked ‘H S[ALMON]’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Leyburn’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 24 recto (D11406) opposite, recording Middleham Castle from high ground to the north east, looking west along Middleham ridge at the centre of the composition, and down into Coverdale at the left.
See folio 22 verso (D11403) for general notes on Middleham.
The leaf is darkened from over-exposure of the recto (D11404)

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The View West along Middleham Ridge, with Coverdale to the Left and Middleham Castle to the Right 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-the-view-west-along-middleham-ridge-with-coverdale-to-the-r1143533, accessed 20 September 2024.