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 Masham Bridge, Church and Town 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Masham Bridge, Church and Town’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
Masham Bridge, Church and Town 1816
D10917
Turner Bequest CXLIV 26a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
 
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 27 (D10918), opposite, recording the view from above the left bank of the River Ure, north of Masham Bridge, looking almost due south to the town and Church of Masham. The sketch includes some figures sitting in the field above the Clifton road, bottom right.
This subject is out of sequence in relation to Turner’s itinerary. The sketches of York end raggedly across several pages of the sketchbook, with numerous blanks in between. Turner’s itinerary took him from York to Boroughbridge, Ripon and thence to Masham, where he presumably went back to his blank pages to use up the gaps.
The Yorkshire 3 sketchbook used on the same tour of 1816 has a similar view from a lower standpoint (Tate D11397; Turner Bequest CXLVI 18).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Masham Bridge, Church and Town 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-masham-bridge-church-and-town-r1144104, accessed 25 April 2024.