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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Middleham from the River Ure to the North-West, near Middleham Bridge 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Middleham from the River Ure to the North-West, near Middleham Bridge’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
Distant View of Middleham from the River Ure to the North-West, near Middleham Bridge 1816
D10958
Turner Bequest CXLIV 49a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Man d[igging] sand with a sp[ade?]’ bottom left.
 
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 50 (D10959), opposite, recording the view from a viewpoint to the north-west of Middleham, near Middleham Bridge, looking along the River Ure to Middleham Church and Castle. The sketch was probably taken from the same viewpoint as the previous double-page spread across folio 48 verso and the recto (D10956–D10957), but looking in the opposite direction. A similar view taken on the same occasion, from a position slightly further to the right, is in the Yorkshire 3 sketchbook (Tate D111403–D11404; Turner Bequest CXLVI 22a–23). Turner’s friend Thomas Girtin drew a similar subject about 1800 in the Shepherd sketchbook (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester).
For Middleham in this sketchbook see folio 47 verso (D10954).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Distant View of Middleham from the River Ure to the North-West, near Middleham Bridge 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-distant-view-of-middleham-from-the-river-ure-to-the-north-r1144146, accessed 20 April 2024.