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 West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Richmond from the West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Richmond from the West 1816
D11541
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Watermarked ‘J WH[ATMAN | 18[15]’
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink (now very faint) ‘Continues from Richmond | p ..?’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 12’ 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 22 verso (D11540; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 11a, now bound opposite), recording a distant view of Richmond from the west, high above the left bank of the River Swale, looking downstream to the town with beyond the plains of north Yorkshire stretching to the distant escarpment of the North Yorkshire Moors. The present writer has dated this sketch to Tuesday 30 July 1816. The direction of light on the castle keep indicates late afternoon. See notes to D11540 for a sketch, perhaps made the previous afternoon as Turner approached Richmond from Swaledale, in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11231; Turner Bequest CXLV 115a), a related studio colour study (Tate D17204; Turner Bequest CXCVII N) and a finished watercolour of Richmond, Yorkshire (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)1 based on the present sketch.

David Hill
May 2009

1
Wilton 1979, p.394 no.808.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Richmond from the West 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-west-r1143701, accessed 09 May 2024.