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 Richmond from the North-East 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Richmond from the North-East’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Richmond from the North-East 1816
D11539
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 11
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Loose Rock’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in blue pencil ‘188’ and again in grey/black ?ink top right
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘187B’ and ‘188’ (the latter struck through) within cartouches, bottom right
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘?cxlviii –11’
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 11’ 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 21 verso (D11538; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 10a, now bound opposite), recording the view from the left bank of the River Swale, looking upstream to Richmond Mill and Castle to the left with, on this page, St Mary’s Church, with Greyfriars Tower beyond. Dated by the present writer to Wednesday 31 July 1816, the sketch formed the basis of a studio watercolour, Richmond, Yorkshire (Victoria and Albert Museum, London),1 painted about 1816–17 for Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s projected General History of the County of York (see sketchbook introduction) and engraved by W.R. Smith in 1819 for the completed part, History of Richmondshire.
The inscribed numbers ‘187B’ and ‘188’ appear connected with the early exhibition of the drawing of Richmond from the west on the verso (D11540; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 11a), but apparently not with display at Oxford where it had a different number (158) as recorded by Finberg.

David Hill
May 2009

1
Wilton 1979, no.559

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Richmond from the North-East 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-richmond-from-the-north-east-r1143699, accessed 23 April 2024.