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 Castle and Church 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Knaresborough Castle and Church’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 104 Verso:
Knaresborough Castle and Church 1816
D11038
Turner Bequest CXLIV 104a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page has an assortment of architectural details at Knaresborough, including (in the main sketch) a detailed study of Knaresborough Castle from the south, plus another aspect of the castle perhaps from the north-west beyond the High Bridge as also sketched in the Yorkshire 3 sketchbook (Tate D11419; Turner Bequest CXLVI 31), St John’s Church from the east, and a detail of an arch of the castle.
There is an impression of an inscription offset from folio 105 (D11039), opposite. The page has been detached from the sketchbook at some time and has been restored to it with tissue.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Knaresborough Castle and Church 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-castle-and-church-r1144227, accessed 18 September 2024.