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 5 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lancaster, with the Aqueduct 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lancaster, with the Aqueduct’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Lancaster, with the Aqueduct 1816
D11583
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘cxlviii 35’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 35’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right part of a double-page spread continued from folio 9 verso (D11585; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 36, now bound opposite), depicting Lancaster from the north, from the Halton road looking over the aqueduct with the new bridge, castle and church in the distance beyond. Turner sketched a quick first impression of the same scene from a viewpoint slightly further to the left in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11167; Turner Bequest CXLV 82a). The present writer has dated these sketches to Wednesday 7 August 1816.
See notes to D11585 for the aqueduct and an earlier drawing by Turner from 1797; the binding of the page to reunite the double-page spread (a connection missed by Finberg); and discussion by Eric Shanes in relation to a colour study (Tate D25183; Turner Bequest CCLXIII 61).

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Lancaster, with the Aqueduct 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-lancaster-with-the-aqueduct-r1143676, accessed 25 April 2024.