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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Durham Cathedral: The Nave Seen from the North Aisle 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Durham Cathedral: The Nave Seen from the North Aisle’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Durham Cathedral: The Nave Seen from the North Aisle 1797
D01016
Turner Bequest XXXV 13
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 13’ bottom right
A finished watercolour of this subject (currently untraced)1 was engraved by S. Porter and published by R. Taylor in the 1802 second edition of T. Warton’s Essays on Gothic Architecture (Tate impression: T05939). Turner’s note on the verso refers to this commission. Further pencil studies of the interior are on folios 15 recto and 17 recto (D01013, D01015; Turner Bequest XXXV 10, 12).
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.330 no.276.
Technical notes:
There are paint splashes in the top right corner.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘9 by 12 Mr Taylor’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘141.13’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Durham Cathedral: The Nave Seen from the North Aisle 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-durham-cathedral-the-nave-seen-from-the-north-aisle-r1150182, accessed 19 April 2024.