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 Junction of the Rivers Ouse and Foss 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ouse Bridge, York, from the Junction of the Rivers Ouse and Foss’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Ouse Bridge, York, from the Junction of the Rivers Ouse and Foss 1816
D10906
Turner Bequest CXLIV 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W Band to Window’
Trace of inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, ‘21’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the continuation to the right of the preceding double-page spread, folios 19 verso–20 (D10904–D10905), which records the view up the River Ouse from the left bank just below its junction with the River Foss. Here, the view takes in the Castle Mills Bridge and the New Debtor’s Prison (1709).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Ouse Bridge, York, from the Junction of the Rivers Ouse and Foss 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-junction-of-the-rivers-ouse-and-r1144093, accessed 25 April 2024.