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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Middleham Castle and Town from the East, Near Ulshaw Bridges 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Middleham Castle and Town from the East, Near Ulshaw Bridges’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
Middleham Castle and Town from the East, Near Ulshaw Bridges 1816
D10974
Turner Bequest CXLIV 57a
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 58 (D10975), opposite, recording the view of Middleham Castle and town from the east near Ulshaw Bridges, with Penhill top left. The panorama is effectively continued to the right, albeit from a slightly more distant viewpoint to take in Ulshaw Bridges themselves, on folio 58 verso (D10976).
For Middleham in this sketchbook see folio 47 verso (D10954).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Middleham Castle and Town from the East, Near Ulshaw Bridges 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-middleham-castle-and-town-from-the-east-near-ulshaw-bridges-r1144162, accessed 27 April 2024.