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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ripon Cathedral: The Crossing, from the North Transept 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ripon Cathedral: The Crossing, from the North Transept’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Ripon Cathedral: The Crossing, from the North Transept 1797
D01008
Turner Bequest XXXV 5
Pencil on white wove paper, 370 x 274 mm
Part watermark ‘E & P’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 5’ bottom right/
This is one of four drawings made at Ripon in the two large sketchbooks used on this tour; see also folio 9 recto (D01009; Turner Bequest XXXV 6) and, in the North of England book, Tate D00925 and D00926 (Turner Bequest XXXIV 19, 20). Two slighter sketches are among the loose drawings associated with the journey (Tate D01098, D01099; Turner Bequest XXXVI D, E). The Minster became the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Ripon in 1836. This and the following leaf, another view in the interior, are among the most impressive technical achievements of the tour.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘141.5’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Ripon Cathedral: The Crossing, from the North Transept 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ripon-cathedral-the-crossing-from-the-north-transept-r1150172, accessed 25 April 2024.