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 Ouse Bridge, York, from the Guildhall Water Gate 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ouse Bridge, York, from the Guildhall Water Gate’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Ouse Bridge, York, from the Guildhall Water Gate 1816
D10897
Turner Bequest CXLIV 16
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 ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 16’ 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 15 verso (D10896), opposite, recording the view of the Ouse Bridge, York, from the left bank, upstream, outside the Water Gate of the Guildhall.
For the Ouse Bridge see folio 15 verso (D10896).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Ouse Bridge, York, from the Guildhall Water Gate 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-ouse-bridge-york-from-the-guildhall-water-gate-r1144084, accessed 19 April 2024.