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 Brignall Church on the Banks of the River Greta 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Brignall Church on the Banks of the River Greta’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Brignall Church on the Banks of the River Greta 1816
D11488
Turner Bequest CXLVII 29a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
Watermarked ‘[WHA]TMAN | [18]14’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bignall’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner records the view towards Brignall Church, looking up the River Greta, from a viewpoint slightly more distant and higher than in a foregoing sketch on folio 29 recto (D11487; see catalogue notes), but closer and lower than in one in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11213; Turner Bequest CXLV 106) used on the same tour. The present sketch formed the basis of a studio watercolour Brignall Church (destroyed in a fire in the nineteenth century)1 engraved for Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire, part of the projected seven-volume General History of the County of York (see Introduction to the sketchbook), and published in 1822.

David Hill
February 2009

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.365 no.567.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Brignall Church on the Banks of the River Greta 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-brignall-church-on-the-banks-of-the-river-greta-r1143623, accessed 19 September 2024.