J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wetherby Bridge and Town from Downstream on the River Wharfe 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wetherby Bridge and Town from Downstream on the River Wharfe’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
Wetherby Bridge and Town from Downstream on the River Wharfe 1816
D10883
Turner Bequest CXLIV 8a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘H’ [?Hay] at left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread, continued to the right on folio 9 (D10884), opposite. It is taken from a viewpoint on the left bank of the River Wharfe, looking upstream to Wetherby Bridge, with the old St James’s Church1 at the extreme right. Turner has positioned himself closer to the bridge than he did to make the preceding sketch on folio 8 of the sketchbook (D10882).

David Hill
January 2009

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The present church was built 1839–41.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Wetherby Bridge and Town from Downstream on the River Wharfe 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-wetherby-bridge-and-town-from-downstream-on-the-river-wharfe-r1144070, accessed 25 April 2024.