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 South 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Richmond from the South’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Richmond from the South 1816
D11593
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 41a
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Watermarked ‘J WH[ATMAN] |18[15]’
Inscribed (now illegibly) by ?John Ruskin in red ink bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘cxlviii 41’ 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 23 verso (D11542; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 12a, now bound opposite), depicting Richmond from the south, looking over the bridge to Bargate at the left, with the castle directly opposite. Dated by the present writer to Tuesday 30 July 1816, the sketch served as the basis of a studio watercolour, Richmond Castle and Town, Yorkshire (currently untraced),1 painted about 1816–18 for Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s projected General History of the County of York (see sketchbook introduction) and engraved by J. Archer in 1820 for the completed part, History of Richmondshire.
Finberg was unable to connect this page of the sketchbook with any other. The correct association with D11542 had been noticed and the book rebound accordingly before the present writer’s 1984 book.

David Hill
May 2009

1
Wilton 1979, no.559

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Richmond from the South 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-south-r1143703, accessed 20 September 2024.