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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Cowthorpe Oak and Cowthorpe Church from the North 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Cowthorpe Oak and Cowthorpe Church from the North’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
The Cowthorpe Oak and Cowthorpe Church from the North 1816
D10886
Turner Bequest CXLIV 10
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 ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread depicting the Cowthorpe Oak, continued to the right from folio 9 verso (D10885), opposite, with a detail of the tower of St Michael’s Church, top right.
For the Cowthorpe Oak in this sketchbook see folio 9 verso (D10885).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Cowthorpe Oak and Cowthorpe Church from the North 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-the-cowthorpe-oak-and-cowthorpe-church-from-the-north-r1144073, accessed 24 April 2024.