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 4 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mortham Tower, near Rokeby 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mortham Tower, near Rokeby’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
Mortham Tower, near Rokeby 1816
D11481
Turner Bequest CXLVII 25a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very hasty sketch of Mortham Tower near Rokeby is taken from a viewpoint further left than the sketch on the recto (D11480). It includes a detail of part of Rokeby Hall to the right.

David Hill
February 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Mortham Tower, near Rokeby 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-mortham-tower-near-rokeby-r1143616, accessed 25 April 2024.