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 Knaresborough from the South 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Knaresborough from the South’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Recto:
Knaresborough from the South 1816
D10973
Turner Bequest CXLIV 57
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Inscribed, possibly John Ruskin, in blue ink bled-out in red ‘57’ bottom right, descending vertically (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 57’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this sketch Turner records the south aspect of Knaresborough, from a more distant viewpoint, and in less detail than the sketch on folio 56 verso (D10972), opposite.
Both these sketches of Knaresborough are out of sequence in the sketchbook and interrupt a long sequence of studies at Middleham. Knaresborough is some considerable distance south of Middleham, and Turner must have sketched there at the end of this tour. He appears to have been filling in pages that for some reason had been left blank as he progressed through his itinerary.
See Introduction and Technical notes to this sketchbook for the change of ink colour, apparently from blue to red, in the numbering of this page.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Knaresborough from the South 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-knaresborough-from-the-south-r1144161, accessed 16 April 2024.