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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boroughbridge from the West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boroughbridge from the West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Boroughbridge from the West 1816
D10923
Turner Bequest CXLIV 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Netching [??]’, ‘calm’ [?] and ‘Borough B’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records the view down the River Ure to the bridge, with the tower of Boroughbridge Church at the far right, and in the foreground the navigable branch of the river forking to the left.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Boroughbridge from the West 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-boroughbridge-from-the-west-r1144111, accessed 23 April 2024.