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 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

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 9 Recto:
Wetherby Bridge and Town from Downstream on the River Wharfe 1816
D10884
Turner Bequest CXLIV 9
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Very faint trace of an inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, top right, and another ‘9’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 9’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread, continued to the right from folio 8 verso (D10883), opposite. The view 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. The viewpoint is closer to the bridge than in the preceding sketch, folio 8 recto (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-r1144071, accessed 18 April 2024.