Turner's view of Richmond

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Turner’s view of Richmond in North Yorkshire, is one of a number of landscapes drawn for Turner’s most extensive topographical series, Picturesque Views in England and Wales 1827-38. Turner produced some of his finest watercolours for the project. Here he returned to the sketches made on his 1816 Yorkshire tour to create a deep panorama, surveying the moors above the River Swale. In the fifth and final volume of Modern Painters (1860), John Ruskin - who once owned this watercolour - praised the luxuriance of the foliage; elsewhere he had celebrated the humorous antics of the hat-wearing dog.🐶 The Fitzwilliam’s collection of watercolours is rightly celebrated and includes landscape watercolours by such artists as Palmer, Sargent, Whistler and Paul Nash and a superb group of over fifty works by J.M.W. Turner, almost half of which were given in 1861 by the artist’s most fervent champion and critic, John Ruskin. Richmond, Yorkshire, c.1826-28 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Watercolour over graphite, with gum arabic on paper, 28 x 40 cms Given by John Ruskin, 1861. #turnerwatercolor #landscapepainting #viewsofyorkshire #richmondcastle #riverswale #johnruskin #collecting #fitzwilliammuseum #watercolourart #cambridgeuniversity #view #spacetobreathe